Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 34
The days which now come brought not a single sunbeam.
Who acts: days · What happens: come, bring · To what, where: single sunbeam
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 days | acl:relcl |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 come | xcomp |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 sunbeam | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sunbeam | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sunbeam | amod |
| 10 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 days | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the days | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | participle | the days not said here | a single sunbeam | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sunbeam=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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