Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 62
In years gone by he was a beautiful boy; now that is all past."
Who acts: Zephyr, that · What happens: go, be · To what, where: beautiful boy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zephyr, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 years | case |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 boy | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 boy | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 boy | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 past | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 past | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 past | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 past | cop |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 past | det |
| 15 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gone | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Zephyr | a beautiful boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | now | past 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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