Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 2
It was just three hundred and sixty-five years old, but that long time was to the tree as the same number of days might be to us; we wake by day and sleep by night, and then we have our dreams.
Who acts: tree, long time, we, our · What happens: be, wake, have, dream · To what, where: three hundred, dreams
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, long time, we, our), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hundred | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hundred | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 hundred | advmod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 five | cc |
| 7 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 five | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sixty | punct |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | conj |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 old | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tree | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 tree | cc |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tree | cop |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 old | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 number | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 number | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 number | amod |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 number | nmod |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 us | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 us | cop |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 us | case |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 days | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 wake | punct |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 wake | nsubj |
| 33 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 old | parataxis |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wake | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sleep | cc |
| 37 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 day | conj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 night | case |
| 39 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wake | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 have | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 have | cc |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 have | advmod |
| 43 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 have | nsubj |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 wake | conj |
| 45 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 46 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 have | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree | three hundred | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that long time | to the tree; as the same number of days | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | might | to us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wake | present | we | day; night | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | present | we | our dreams | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | |||
| 6 | dream | our | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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