Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 150

"It is Winter, the old man of the former year; he is not dead, as the calendar says, but he is guardian to the spring, which is coming."

Who acts: town, man, calendar, spring · What happens: be, not be, say, come · To what, where: old man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (town, man, calendar, spring), 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	_	8 man	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 man	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
4	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 man	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 year	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 year	det
11	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 year	amod
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 dead	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dead	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 dead	advmod
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 says	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 calendar	det
21	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 guardian	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 guardian	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 guardian	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 guardian	cop
27	guardian	guardian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 says	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 spring	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spring	det
30	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 guardian	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 coming	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 coming	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 coming	aux
34	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 spring	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 guardian	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	town	the old man	year		tree rules
2	not is in a quote	present	man			dead property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the calendar				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	man		spring	guardian property	tree rules
5	come in a quote	present · progressive	the spring				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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