Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 3
It is different with the tree; it is obliged to keep awake through three seasons of the year, and does not get any sleep till winter comes.
Who acts: tree, winter · What happens: be, oblige, keep, not get, come · To what, where: tree, sleep
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, winter), 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 | 3 different | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 different | cop |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 different | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 obliged | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 obliged | aux:pass |
| 10 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 different | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 obliged | advcl |
| 13 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 seasons | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 seasons | nummod |
| 16 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 keep | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 year | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seasons | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 get | cc |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 get | advmod |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 different | conj |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 sleep | det |
| 26 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obj |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 29 comes | mark |
| 28 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 comes | nsubj |
| 29 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tree | with the tree; different property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | oblige | present · passive | tree | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | season | awake property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not get | present · do-support | tree not said here | any sleep | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come | present | winter | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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