Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 47

It is Winter, the old man of last year; he is not dead yet, as the calendar says, but acts as guardian to little Prince Spring who is coming.

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	information	Winter				tree rules
2	not is	present	man			yet	dead property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	the calendar					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	act	present					as guardian	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as guardian=Attribute
5	come	present · progressive			little Prince Spring			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spring=Initial_Location

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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