Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 28
Time passes away, and all things changed.
Who acts: Time, things · What happens: pass away, change
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Time, things), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passes | nsubj |
| 2 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 passes | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 changed | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 changed | nsubj |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passes | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | present | Time | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | change | past | all things | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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