Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 34
Spring went by, and summer drew towards its close; autumn came; but he had not decided.
Who acts: Spring, summer, autumn, marriage · What happens: go by, draw, come, not decide
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spring, summer, autumn, marriage), 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 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drew | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drew | cc |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | nsubj |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 10 close | mark |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 close | nmod:poss |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 drew | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 close | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 decided | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 decided | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 decided | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 decided | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 decided | advmod |
| 19 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 went | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | Spring | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | summer | close property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | autumn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not decide | past · perfect | marriage | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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