Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 78
Day after day, and week after week, till the plant became quite a tree.
Who acts: Day · What happens: become · To what, where: tree
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 (Day), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 week | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 week | cc |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | parataxis |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 week | case |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 week | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 became | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plant | det |
| 12 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 tree | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Day after day | quite tree | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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