Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 78
Years have passed since this sad event happened.
Who acts: sad event · What happens: pass, happen · To what, where: Years
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sad event), 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 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | aux |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 happened | mark |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 event | det |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 event | amod |
| 7 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present · perfect · passive | Years | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | this sad event | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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