Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 14

Summertime without a summer theatre seemed to be only a time that made her old; while, on the other hand, a theatrical evening that lasted till midnight was a lengthening of her life.

Who acts: Summertime, time, theatrical evening, other hand · What happens: seem, be, make, last, lengthen · To what, where: time, Summertime

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Summertime, time, theatrical evening, other hand), 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	Summertime	summertime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
2	without	without	ADP	_	5 theatre	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 theatre	det
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 theatre	compound
5	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Summertime	nmod
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	11 time	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 time	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 time	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	xcomp
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 time	acl:relcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 made	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 lengthening	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 lengthening	mark
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hand	punct
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 hand	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hand	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hand	amod
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lengthening	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 evening	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 evening	det
25	theatrical	theatrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 evening	amod
26	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hand	appos
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 lasted	nsubj
28	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 evening	acl:relcl
29	till	till	ADP	_	30 midnight	case
30	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lasted	obl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lengthening	aux
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lengthening	det
33	lengthening	lengthen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 seemed	advcl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 life	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 life	nmod:poss
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lengthening	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Summertime without a summer theatre				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	Summertime without a summer theatre not said here	a time			tree rules
3	make	past	a time	Summertime		old property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
4	last	past	a theatrical evening		midnight		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	lengthen	past · progressive	the other hand			of hand's life	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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