Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 45

The night was far too short for me; there are no long nights there in summer, as we often have in this part of the world.

Who acts: night, long nights, we · What happens: be, have · To what, where: part

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, long nights, we), 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 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 short	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 short	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 short	advmod
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 short	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 are	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 short	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 nights	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nights	amod
14	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 are	nsubj
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 nights	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 summer	case
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nights	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 have	advmod
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 short	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 part	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 part	det
25	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 world	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 part	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 short	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the night		for me; far, short property	tree rules
2	does	present	no long nights in summer	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	we	this part of the world	often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/45/