Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 10
Ah, well, it was a very long time since one became a lamp and the other a watchman.
Who acts: lamp, one · What happens: be, become · To what, where: long time, lamp
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp, one), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 10 time | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 time | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 time | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lamp | det |
| 15 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 watchman | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 watchman | amod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 watchman | det |
| 20 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lamp | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lamp | a long time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | past | one | a lamp and a other watchman | 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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