Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 157

Now all was past; the tree's life was past, and the story also,--for all stories must come to an end at last.

Who acts: all, life, stories · What happens: be, come · To what, where: last

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, life, stories), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 past	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 past	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 past	cop
4	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 past	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 life	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 tree	case
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 past	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 past	cop
11	past	past	ADV	_	4 past	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 story	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 story	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 story	det
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 past	parataxis
16	also	also	ADV	_	15 story	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 stories	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 stories	det
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 come	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 past	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 end	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 end	det
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 come	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 past	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all		now	past property	tree rules
2	is	past	the tree's life			past property	tree rules
3	come	must	all stories	last	to a end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=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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