Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 94

He fell--his three hundred and sixty-five years were passed as the single day of the Ephemera.

Who acts: cracking · What happens: fall, pass · To what, where: hundred five years

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 (cracking), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 years	nmod:poss
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sixty	cc
8	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sixty	punct
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 passed	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 passed	aux:pass
13	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fell	conj
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Ephemera	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Ephemera	det
20	Ephemera	Ephemera	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 day	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	cracking						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	past · passive		cracking's hundred five years			day		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

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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