Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 51

When this learned man arrived at home, he wrote books about the true, the good, and the beautiful, which are to be found in this world; and so days and years passed--many, many years.

Who acts: this, man, days · What happens: learn, arrive, write, find, pass · To what, where: home, books, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, man, days), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 learned	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 learned	nsubj
3	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wrote	advcl
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 learned	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrote	nsubj
10	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wrote	obj
12	about	about	SCONJ	_	14 true	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 true	det
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wrote	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 good	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 true	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beautiful	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beautiful	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beautiful	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wrote	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 found	nsubj:pass
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 found	aux:pass
25	to	to	PART	_	27 found	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 found	aux:pass
27	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 beautiful	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 passed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 passed	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	37 passed	advmod
34	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 passed	nsubj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 years	cc
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 days	conj
37	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wrote	conj
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 years	punct
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 years	amod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 many	punct
41	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 years	amod
42	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 passed	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	learn	past	this				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	arrive	past	man		home		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	write	past	man	books			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
4	find	present · passive			this world		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	pass	past	days and years			year	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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