Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 209
The following day, the third day during which his house had been closed, the snow-storm ceased.
Who acts: snow storm · What happens: follow, close, cease · To what, where: house
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 (snow storm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ceased | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 8 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 closed | obl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 closed | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 closed | aux:pass |
| 14 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 day | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 storm | det |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 storm | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 snow | punct |
| 19 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ceased | nsubj |
| 20 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | close | past · perfect · passive | tree's house | during the third day | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cease | participle | the snow storm | day | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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