Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 103
Three years had passed away since he left his home; one year of that time he had dwelt at Milan.
Who acts: master · What happens: pass away, leave, dwell · To what, where: Three years, home, time, Milan
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 left | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 home | nmod:poss |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 year | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 year | nummod |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 year | nmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dwelt | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dwelt | aux |
| 19 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 Milan | case |
| 21 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 dwelt | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past · perfect · passive | Three years | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | master | master's home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | past · perfect | master | that time not said here | Milan | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme time=Location |
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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