Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 37
A change came certainly, but it was only a change of place and not of circumstances.
Who acts: change · What happens: come, be · To what, where: change
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 change | det |
| 2 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 change | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 change | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 change | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 change | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 change | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 change | det |
| 11 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 change | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 circumstances | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 circumstances | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 circumstances | case |
| 17 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 place | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a change | certainly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | change | a change | of place and circumstances | tree rules |
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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