Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 21
So the day of the funeral passed away, and similar days followed, of dark, wearisome pain.
Who acts: day, similar days · What happens: pass away, follow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, similar 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 funeral | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 funeral | det |
| 6 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 11 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pain | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pain | case |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pain | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dark | punct |
| 18 | wearisome | wearisome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pain | amod |
| 19 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | the day of the funeral | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | similar days | of dark wearisome pain | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent of pain=Trajectory |
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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