Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 40

Yes, there was writing about that, and many things can be put into a letter--bright sunshine and dark, heavy days.

What happens: write, put · To what, where: many things, letter

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: 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 writing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 writing	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 writing	aux
5	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 writing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	nsubj:pass
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 put	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 put	aux:pass
14	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 writing	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 letter	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 letter	det
17	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 sunshine	punct
19	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sunshine	amod
20	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 letter	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 days	cc
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 days	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dark	punct
24	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 days	amod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 letter	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 writing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · progressive				there		about that	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about that=Topic
2	put	can · passive		many things		a letter and bright sunshine and dark heavy days			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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