Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 94
And there it increased in strength so much as to be able to withstand the cold of winter; and after passing through the severe weather, it seemed to put forth its blossoms in spring for very joy that the cold season had gone.
Who acts: sun, it, cold season · What happens: increase, be, withstand, pass, seem, put · To what, where: much, strength, cold, severe weather, blossoms, joy
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 (sun, it, cold season), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 increased | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 increased | expl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 increased | nsubj |
| 4 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 strength | case |
| 6 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 increased | obl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 increased | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 able | mark |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 able | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 much | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 withstand | mark |
| 14 | withstand | withstand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cold | det |
| 16 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 withstand | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 winter | case |
| 18 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cold | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 seemed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 seemed | cc |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 passing | mark |
| 22 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 seemed | advcl |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 weather | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 weather | det |
| 25 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 weather | amod |
| 26 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 passing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 passing | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 seemed | nsubj |
| 29 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 increased | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 put | mark |
| 31 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 seemed | xcomp |
| 32 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 31 put | advmod |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 blossoms | nmod:poss |
| 34 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 put | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 spring | case |
| 36 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 joy | case |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 joy | advmod |
| 39 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obl |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 gone | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 season | det |
| 42 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 season | amod |
| 43 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gone | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 gone | aux |
| 45 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 joy | acl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | sun | much | strength; there | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer much=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | sun not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | withstand | to-infinitive | sun not said here | the cold of winter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass | gerund | the severe weather | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through weather=Location | |||||
| 5 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | put | to-infinitive | sun's blossoms | spring | for joy; forth property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent blossom=Goal | |||
| 7 | go | past · perfect | the cold season | joy not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joy=Theme |
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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