Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 44
The autumn has much to tell of the wild chase, of the leaves of the trees, and of the races of men that are passing away together.
Who acts: autumn, men · What happens: have, tell, pass away, race · To what, where: much · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (autumn, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 autumn | det |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 tell | mark |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 chase | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chase | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chase | amod |
| 10 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaves | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 leaves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 leaves | det |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tell | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leaves | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 races | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 races | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 races | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 races | det |
| 22 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 men | case |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 races | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 passing | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 passing | aux |
| 27 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 men | acl:relcl |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 passing | advmod |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 passing | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the autumn | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | of the wild chase; of the leaves of the trees | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pass away | present · progressive | men | away, together property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | race | men | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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