Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 170
Last winter was a hard winter, but I have got over it all now.
Who acts: Last winter, I · What happens: be, get over · To what, where: hard winter, cold
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 (Last winter, I), 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 winter | amod |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 winter | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 winter | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 winter | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 winter | amod |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | aux |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 winter | conj |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | obl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 it | det |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 got | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 winter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Last winter | a hard winter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get over | present · perfect | I | cold | now | over property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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