Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 36

Time goes by when one has something to do; and it goes by, too, when one has nothing to do.

Who acts: Time, one, hand · What happens: go, have, do, go by · To what, where: something, nothing

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 (Time, one, 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 has	mark
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 has	advmod
5	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	advcl
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 has	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 something	acl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 goes	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 goes	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 goes	nsubj
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	parataxis
14	by	by	ADP	_	13 goes	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 too	punct
16	too	too	ADV	_	13 goes	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 has	advmod
19	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 goes	conj
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 has	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 nothing	acl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	present	Time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	one	something	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive	one not said here	something not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go by	present	hand		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	one	nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	do	to-infinitive	one not said here	nothing not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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