Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 83

It was spring and it became summer, it was autumn and it became winter, and thousands of pictures reflected themselves in the boy's eyes and heart, and the little girl always sang again, "You will never forget that!"

Who acts: couple, thousands, little girl, You · What happens: be, become, reflect, sing, not forget · To what, where: spring, summer, autumn, winter, thousands, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple, thousands, little girl, You), 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	3 spring	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spring	cop
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 became	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spring	conj
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 autumn	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 autumn	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 autumn	cop
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 summer	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 became	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reflected	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 reflected	cc
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 reflected	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 pictures	case
20	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thousands	nmod
21	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 reflected	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 eyes	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eyes	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 boy	case
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 reflected	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 heart	cc
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eyes	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sang	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sang	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 girl	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 girl	amod
34	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sang	nsubj
35	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	36 sang	advmod
36	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
37	again	again	ADV	_	36 sang	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 forget	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 forget	punct
40	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 forget	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 forget	aux
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 forget	advmod
43	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 sang	ccomp
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 forget	obj
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 forget	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	couple	spring				tree rules
2	become	past	couple	summer and autumn				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	couple	autumn				tree rules
4	become	past	couple	winter				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	reflect	past	thousands of pictures	thousands = thousand	the boy's eyes and heart			tree rules
6	sing speech: express	past	the little girl			again	always property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not forget in a quote	future	You	that				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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