Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 61
The next day that dawned, the next night that fell, offered the same spectacle, similar bustle, similar life; changing, indeed, yet always the same; and thus it went on through the sequence of days.
Who acts: next day, next night, life · What happens: dawn, fall, offer, change, go on · To what, where: same spectacle, sequence
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, next night, life), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 offered | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 dawned | nsubj |
| 5 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 day | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 night | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 night | amod |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 night | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 13 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spectacle | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spectacle | amod |
| 16 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 offered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bustle | punct |
| 18 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bustle | amod |
| 19 | bustle | bustle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spectacle | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 life | punct |
| 21 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 life | amod |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spectacle | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 changing | punct |
| 24 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 offered | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 indeed | punct |
| 26 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 changing | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 same | punct |
| 28 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 31 same | cc |
| 29 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 31 same | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 same | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 changing | parataxis |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 34 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 went | nsubj |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 offered | conj |
| 37 | on | on | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 38 | through | through | ADP | _ | 40 sequence | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sequence | det |
| 40 | sequence | sequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 days | case |
| 42 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 sequence | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past | the next day | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the next night | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | offer | past | the next day | the same spectacle and similar bustle and similar life | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | change | gerund | the next day not said here | indeed property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go on | past | life | the sequence of days | thus property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through sequence=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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