Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 113
Very soon the spring time came, and the sun warmed the earth.
Who acts: spring time, sun · What happens: come, warm · To what, where: earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spring time, sun), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 warmed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 warmed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warmed | nsubj |
| 11 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warmed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the spring time | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | warm | past | the sun | the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
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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