Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 44

It was in our own days; the lake had been transformed into marsh land; the whole baronial seat had, as it were, disappeared.

Who acts: meantime, whole baronial seat · What happens: be, transform, disappear · To what, where: lake, marsh land

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meantime, whole baronial seat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:10513): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 days	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 days	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 days	case
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 days	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 transformed	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 transformed	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 transformed	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 transformed	aux:pass
12	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 days	parataxis
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 land	compound
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 transformed	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 seat	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seat	amod
19	baronial	baronial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seat	amod
20	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 disappeared	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 disappeared	aux
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 were	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 were	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 were	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 disappeared	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 were	punct
27	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 days	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	meantime		in our own days		tree rules
2	transform	past · perfect · passive		the lake		into marsh land result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into land=Result
3	disappear	past · perfect	the whole baronial seat				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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