Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 151
Four years ago, we had a summer that lasted more than five weeks, and it was so hot one could scarcely breathe.
Who acts: we, summer, weather · What happens: have, last, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, summer, weather), 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 had | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 summer | det |
| 8 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lasted | nsubj |
| 10 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 summer | acl:relcl |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 13 five | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 more | fixed |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 weeks | nummod |
| 14 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 breathe | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 breathe | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 breathe | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 breathe | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 breathe | advmod |
| 20 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 breathe | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 breathe | aux |
| 23 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 24 breathe | advmod |
| 24 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | we | summer | ago property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | last | past | a summer | week | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | could · past | weather | breathe, scarcely property | tree rules |
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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