Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 6
Much has been changed there in the course of time, but the changes have not come so quickly as the change from youth to old age.
Who acts: changes · What happens: change, not come · To what, where: course
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 (changes), 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 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 changed | aux:pass |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 changed | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 course | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 course | det |
| 8 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 course | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 changes | det |
| 14 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 changed | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 quickly | advmod |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 change | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 change | det |
| 22 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 youth | case |
| 24 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 change | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 age | case |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 age | amod |
| 27 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 change | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present · perfect · passive | the course of time; there | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | not come | present · perfect | the changes | as the change from youth to old age; quickly property | 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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