Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 157
At last his hour came, and he died, and arrived at the gates of heaven.
Who acts: widow · What happens: come, die, arrive · To what, where: gates
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hour | amod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hour | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 died | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 died | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 died | nsubj |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arrived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrived | cc |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 gates | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gates | det |
| 15 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 arrived | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 heaven | case |
| 17 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gates | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | past | widow | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past | the gates of heaven | 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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