Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 10
In winter all this pleasure came to an end, for the windows were sometimes quite frozen over.
Who acts: pleasure · What happens: come, freeze over · To what, where: end, windows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 winter | case |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 pleasure | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pleasure | det |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 frozen | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 frozen | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 windows | det |
| 13 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 frozen | aux:pass |
| 15 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 frozen | advmod |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 frozen | advmod |
| 17 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 frozen | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | all pleasure | to a end; winter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | freeze over | past · passive | the windows | over, sometimes property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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