Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 31
On the following day there was a clear frost, and very soon came the spring.
What happens: follow, be, come · To what, where: clear frost
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frost | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frost | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 frost | det |
| 8 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 frost | amod |
| 9 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frost | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spring | det |
| 16 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 frost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | a clear frost | day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | spring | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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