Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 4
Winter is its time for rest; its night after the long day of spring, summer, and autumn.
Who acts: Winter · What happens: be · To what, where: time
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 (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 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 time | nmod:poss |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 rest | case |
| 6 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 night | punct |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 night | nmod:poss |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | parataxis |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 night | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spring | case |
| 15 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 summer | punct |
| 17 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 night | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 autumn | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 autumn | cc |
| 20 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Winter | tree's time | for rest | tree rules |
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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