Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 120
Now my horses and lands are all mortgaged, it is indeed high time; but gold will come at last--at Easter.'
Who acts: land, gold · What happens: mortgage, be, come · To what, where: horses, high time, last
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, gold), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 mortgaged | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 horses | nmod:poss |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mortgaged | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lands | cc |
| 5 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 horses | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mortgaged | aux:pass |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 mortgaged | advmod |
| 8 | mortgaged | mortgage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 time | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 12 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 14 time | advmod |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mortgaged | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mortgaged | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 last | case |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 come | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 Easter | punct |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Easter | case |
| 24 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mortgaged | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 mortgaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mortgage | present · passive | my horses and lands | now | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | land | high time | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | future | gold | last | at Easter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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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