Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 176
Winter one year set in early, and it was freezing hard.
Who acts: Many · What happens: set, freeze · To what, where: early
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 year | nummod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 early | case |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 freezing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 freezing | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 freezing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 freezing | aux |
| 11 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 set | conj |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 freezing | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | early | year | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in early=Destination | ||||
| 2 | freeze | past · progressive | Many | hard property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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