Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 50
Many festive evenings were spent on board.
What happens: spend · To what, where: Many festive evenings, board
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: 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evenings | amod |
| 2 | festive | festive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evenings | amod |
| 3 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spent | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spent | aux:pass |
| 5 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 board | case |
| 7 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spent | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · passive | Many festive evenings | on board goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Asset on board=Goal |
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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