Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 9
Two winters passed, and when the third arrived, the tree had grown so tall that the hare was obliged to run round it.
Who acts: Two winters, third, tree · What happens: pass, arrive, grow, oblige, run · To what, where: hare
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 (Two winters, third, tree), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 winters | nummod |
| 2 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 arrived | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 arrived | cc |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 arrived | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 third | det |
| 8 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | nsubj |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grown | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grown | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grown | aux |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 arrived | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 tall | advmod |
| 16 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grown | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 obliged | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hare | det |
| 19 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 obliged | aux:pass |
| 21 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 grown | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 run | mark |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 obliged | xcomp |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 run | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Two winters | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the third | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past · perfect | the tree | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | oblige | past · passive | the hare | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | run | to-infinitive | round hare | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory |
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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