Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 113

The summer passed away, and the winter came; again there was talk about Mr. George.

Who acts: summer, winter · What happens: pass away, come, be · To what, where: talk

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (summer, winter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 summer	det
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 passed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 winter	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
11	again	again	ADV	_	13 was	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 talk	cop
14	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	parataxis
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 George	case
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 George	nmod:desc
17	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 talk	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass away	past	the summer		away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	come	past	the winter			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		talk	about George Mr.	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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