Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 69
Winter had vanished away, and the beautiful children of Spring sat on the throne of the year.
Who acts: Winter, beautiful children · What happens: vanish away, sit · To what, where: throne
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 (Winter, beautiful children), 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 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 vanished | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vanished | aux |
| 3 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 vanished | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 children | amod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Spring | case |
| 11 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 children | nmod |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vanished | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 throne | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 throne | det |
| 15 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 year | det |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 throne | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish away | past · perfect | Winter | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the beautiful children of Spring | the throne of the year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=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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