Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 170

She was old and bent then; for fifty years had passed and she had outlived them all.

Who acts: last · What happens: be, pass, outlive · To what, where: 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 (last), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 old	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bent	cc
5	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 old	conj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 bent	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 passed	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 passed	obl
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 passed	aux
12	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 old	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 outlived	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 outlived	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 outlived	aux
16	outlived	outlive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 passed	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 outlived	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 them	nmod:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	last			old property	tree rules
2	be		last not said here		then		tree rules
3	pass	past · perfect	last not said here		year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	outlive	past · perfect · passive		last			tree rules

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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