Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 156

During the two long years which followed, no letter came from Christina to her father; and when at last her father received one from her, it did not speak of prosperity or happiness.

Who acts: two long years, letter, last father, plenty · What happens: follow, come, receive, not speak · To what, where: father, Christina, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 long years, letter, last father, plenty), 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	_	5 years	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 years	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	obl
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 followed	nsubj
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 years	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 letter	det
10	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 Christina	case
13	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 father	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 received	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 received	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 received	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 father	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 father	amod
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 received	nsubj
24	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	parataxis
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 received	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 received	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 speak	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 speak	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 speak	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 speak	advmod
32	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 came	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 prosperity	case
34	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 speak	obl
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 happiness	cc
36	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 prosperity	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the two long years						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	no letter		Christina's father	Christina	year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from christina=Initial_Location to father=Destination
3	receive	past	Christina's last father	one				from Christina	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from she=Source
4	not speak speech: other	past · do-support	plenty					of prosperity or happiness	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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