Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 110
The day went by, and the little boy returned home; the week passed, and many more weeks.
Who acts: day, little boy, week · What happens: go by, return, pass
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, little boy, week), 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 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 returned | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 passed | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 week | det |
| 14 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passed | nsubj |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 weeks | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 weeks | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 weeks | amod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 weeks | amod |
| 20 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | the day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | past | the little boy | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | the week | week | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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