Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 31

The flower bulbs had soon played their part, but he had years of apprenticeship before him.

Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: play, have · To what, where: flower bulbs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bulbs	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bulbs	compound
3	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 played	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 played	aux
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 played	advmod
6	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 part	nmod:poss
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 played	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 played	conj
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 apprenticeship	case
15	apprenticeship	apprenticeship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 years	nmod
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · perfect · passive		the flower bulbs				soon property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary part=Theme
2	have	past	Jurgen				before boy; year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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