Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 73
At last, however, the spring came, and the sun shone warm again, and then two little green leaves sprouted forth in the pot.
Who acts: spring, sun, two little green leaves · What happens: come, shine, sprout · To what, where: last, pot
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 (spring, sun, two little green leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7852): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 came | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spring | det |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shone | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shone | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shone | nsubj |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shone | xcomp |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 shone | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sprouted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sprouted | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 sprouted | advmod |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 leaves | nummod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 leaves | amod |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 leaves | amod |
| 22 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sprouted | nsubj |
| 23 | sprouted | sprout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 24 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 23 sprouted | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 pot | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pot | det |
| 27 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sprouted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the spring | last | however property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | shine | past | the sun | again | warm property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | sprout | past | two little green leaves | the pot | then | forth property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pot=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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