Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 126
Autumn came, and the leaves in the forest turned to orange and gold.
Who acts: Autumn, leaves · What happens: come, turn · To what, where: orange
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Autumn, leaves), 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 | Autumn | Autumn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaves | det |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaves | nmod |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 orange | case |
| 12 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gold | cc |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 orange | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Autumn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | participle | the leaves in the forest | orange and gold | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to orange=Trajectory |
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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