Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 10
And more than a whole year went by, and he longed--oh, so very much!--for the Story.
Who acts: man · What happens: go by, long
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 went | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 2 more | fixed |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 year | amod |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 longed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 longed | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 longed | nsubj |
| 12 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 oh | punct |
| 14 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 longed | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 much | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 much | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 Story | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Story | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Story | det |
| 23 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | year | for the Story | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for story=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | long | past | man | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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