Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 24
And so, on every summer day the dance was repeated, the same questions asked, and the same answers given.
Who acts: same questions · What happens: repeat, ask, give · To what, where: dance, same answers
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 (same questions), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 repeated | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 repeated | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | compound |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repeated | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dance | det |
| 9 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 repeated | aux:pass |
| 11 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 questions | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 questions | amod |
| 15 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 repeated | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 answers | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 answers | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 answers | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 answers | amod |
| 21 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 asked | parataxis |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 answers | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past · passive | the dance | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the same questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | participle | the same answers not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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