Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 87
The winter passed away, and the spring and the summer passed away, and the autumn came again, with the damp, cold sea-fog.
Who acts: winter, spring, autumn · What happens: pass away, come
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winter, spring, autumn), 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 winter | det |
| 2 | winter | winter | 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 | _ | 12 passed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 passed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spring | det |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 summer | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 summer | det |
| 11 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spring | conj |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 passed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 autumn | det |
| 17 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fog | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 fog | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fog | det |
| 23 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fog | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 damp | punct |
| 25 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fog | amod |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fog | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 sea | punct |
| 28 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | the winter | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass away | past | the spring and the summer | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the autumn | again | with the damp cold sea fog | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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