Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 48
All that had happened to the tree during every year of his life seemed to pass before him, as in a festive procession.
Who acts: that · What happens: happen, seem, pass
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 (that), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 that | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 8 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seemed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 year | nmod |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pass | mark |
| 16 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pass | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 procession | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 procession | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 procession | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 procession | det |
| 23 | festive | festive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 procession | amod |
| 24 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pass | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · perfect | that | to the tree | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | year | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | before cuckoo | as a festive procession | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
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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