Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 48
The seed of this hour shall ripen in the course of years into a beautiful poem.
Who acts: seed · What happens: ripen · To what, where: course
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 (seed), 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 | 2 seed | det |
| 2 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ripen | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hour | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seed | nmod |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ripen | aux |
| 7 | ripen | ripen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 course | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 course | det |
| 10 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ripen | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 course | nmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 poem | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 poem | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 poem | amod |
| 16 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ripen | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ripen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ripen | shall | the seed of this hour | the course of years | into a beautiful poem | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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