Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 162
And days and weeks went by, but the nights passed more slowly than the days.
Who acts: days, nights · What happens: go by, pass
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, nights), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 weeks | cc |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 days | conj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 passed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nights | det |
| 10 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 slowly | advmod |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 passed | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 days | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 days | det |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 passed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | days and weeks | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | the nights | day | slowly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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