Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 142
In a few moments the day had completed its circle.
What happens: complete · To what, where: day
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 moments | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moments | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moments | amod |
| 4 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 completed | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 completed | aux |
| 8 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 circle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 completed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past · perfect · passive | the day | moment | 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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