Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 24
How long and wearisome the time appeared; it was like being in a treadmill.
Who acts: time, least · What happens: wearisome, appear, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, least), 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 | 7 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wearisome | cc |
| 4 | wearisome | wearisome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 long | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 treadmill | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 treadmill | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 treadmill | cop |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 treadmill | case |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 treadmill | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 treadmill | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 treadmill | det |
| 15 | treadmill | treadmill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wearisome | infinitive | the time not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | the time | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | least | like a treadmill | tree rules |
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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