Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 138
My resting-time draws near; the young pair of the year will soon claim my crown and sceptre."
Who acts: resting time, young pair, my · What happens: draw, claim, crown · To what, where: crown
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 (resting time, young pair, my), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 time | nmod:poss |
| 2 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 resting | punct |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 draws | nsubj |
| 5 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 draws | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 claim | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pair | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pair | amod |
| 10 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 claim | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pair | nmod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 claim | aux |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 claim | advmod |
| 16 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 draws | advcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 crown | nmod:poss |
| 18 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 claim | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sceptre | cc |
| 20 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crown | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 draws | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 draws | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | My resting time | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | future | the young pair of the year | my crown and sceptre | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crown=Topic | |||
| 3 | crown | my | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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