Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 60
How long we were kept in prison, I do not know; but many days and nights passed by.
Who acts: I · What happens: keep, not know, pass by · To what, where: we, prison, many days
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 kept | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | aux:pass |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kept | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 passed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 passed | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 days | amod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nights | cc |
| 18 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 days | conj |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 kept | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 passed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | we | prison | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in prison=Location | |||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | pass by | participle · passive | many days and nights | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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