Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 120
During the next year, two letters passed between Ib and Christina.
Who acts: two letters · What happens: pass · To what, where: Ib
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two letters), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 year | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 year | amod |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 letters | nummod |
| 7 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 passed | nsubj |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 Ib | case |
| 10 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Christina | cc |
| 12 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ib | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | two letters | Ib and Christina | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between ib=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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