Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 29
Thus several years passed by, and his love became quite old.
Who acts: several years, love, boy · What happens: pass by, become, love
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several years, love, boy), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 years | advmod |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 passed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod:poss |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 old | advmod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | several years | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become | past | boy's love | old property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | love | boy | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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.
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