Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 26
Many years passed, and most of the children became grown-up persons.
Who acts: Many years, most · What happens: pass, become, grow up · To what, where: grown persons
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many years, most), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 became | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 children | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 most | nmod |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 11 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 persons | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 up | punct |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grown | compound:prt |
| 14 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 became | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Many years | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become | past | most of the children | grown persons | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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