Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 14

And then it's a story that has been acting for thousands upon thousands of years and is still going on.

Who acts: clod, that · What happens: be, act, go on · To what, where: story

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clod, that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 story	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 story	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 story	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 story	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 acting	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 acting	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 acting	aux
10	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 story	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 thousands	case
12	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 acting	obl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 thousands	case
14	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 acting	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 years	case
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thousands	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 going	cc
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 going	advmod
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 acting	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	20 going	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	clod	a story	then		tree rules
2	act	present · perfect · progressive	that			for thousands; upon thousands of years	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go on	present · progressive	that not said here		still		vn function-105.2.1 «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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