Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 25
What was bitter has passed away, and the whole is much more comfortable.
Who acts: whole · What happens: be, pass away
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 bitter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bitter | cop |
| 3 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 bitter | advcl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 comfortable | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 comfortable | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 whole | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 comfortable | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 comfortable | cop |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 comfortable | advmod |
| 14 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bitter | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bitter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bitter property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass away | present · perfect | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the whole | comfortable property | 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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