Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 26
"The days go on, and the days come nearer and nearer to clearness and to joy; and then a day will come when it will be over with me; but not over altogether.
Who acts: days, day, whole · What happens: go on, come, be
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 (days, day, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 11 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 come | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nearer | cc |
| 13 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 nearer | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 clearness | case |
| 15 | clearness | clearness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nearer | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 joy | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 joy | mark |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clearness | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 come | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | parataxis |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 over | advmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 over | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 over | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 over | cop |
| 30 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 come | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 altogether | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 altogether | cc |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 altogether | advmod |
| 36 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 altogether | case |
| 37 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | present | the days | altogether property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | the days | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | a day | then | with the youngest = young | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | whole | over 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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