Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 2
He was young at that time--indeed, he is young still, although he is ten years older than he was then.
Who acts: Alfred · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alfred), 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 | 3 young | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | cop |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 young | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 young | punct |
| 8 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 12 young | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 indeed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 young | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 young | cop |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 young | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 older | punct |
| 15 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 20 older | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 older | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 older | cop |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 older | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 young | parataxis |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 then | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 then | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 then | cop |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 older | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Alfred | time | young property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | Alfred | still | indeed, young property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | Alfred | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | Alfred | then property | 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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