Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 45
It was just about holy Christmas time that the tree dreamed a dream.
Who acts: oak, tree · What happens: be, dream · To what, where: holy Christmas time, dream
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, tree), 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 | 7 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 about | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 time | advmod |
| 5 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 6 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 time | compound |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 dreamed | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dreamed | nsubj |
| 11 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dream | det |
| 13 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dreamed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | oak | holy Christmas time | about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dream | past | the tree | a dream | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic |
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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