Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 33
In the country it was really winter, a few degrees colder than in the town.
Who acts: country, few degrees · What happens: be · To what, where: winter, country
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 (country, few degrees), 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 | _ | 3 country | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 winter | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 winter | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 winter | cop |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 winter | advmod |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 colder | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 degrees | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 degrees | amod |
| 11 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 colder | nsubj |
| 12 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 winter | conj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 colder | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 winter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | country | winter | the country | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | a few degrees | than the town | 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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