Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 62
"Tee-wit, tee-wit; is spring coming at last?"
Who acts: wit spring · What happens: be, come · To what, where: wit spring, last
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 (wit 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 | _ | 4 wit | punct |
| 2 | Tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wit | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tee | punct |
| 4 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spring | compound |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wit | punct |
| 6 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wit | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tee | punct |
| 8 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wit | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 wit | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 spring | cop |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coming | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | wit spring | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | gerund | wit spring | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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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