Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 38

According to human computation, it was now in the fourth century of its existence.

Who acts: oak · What happens: accord, be, exist

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 (oak), 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 computation	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 computation	amod
4	computation	computation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 century	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 century	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 century	cop
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 century	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 century	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 century	det
11	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 century	amod
12	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 computation	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 existence	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 existence	nmod:poss
15	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 century	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 computation	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	oak	now	in the fourth century; of oak's existence	tree rules
3	exist		oak			nom existence «state intransitive»: 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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