Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 137
In a few weeks he had become a very old man, with hair as white as snow. "
Who acts: snow · What happens: become · To what, where: old man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 weeks | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 weeks | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weeks | amod |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 become | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 become | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 become | aux |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 old | advmod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hair | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hair | case |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 white | case |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hair | amod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 snow | case |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 white | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hair | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | snow | a old man | week | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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