Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 132
As soon, as the summer was over, the wedding should take place.
Who acts: summer, wedding · What happens: be, take · To what, where: place
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 (summer, wedding), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 soon | case |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 take | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 over | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 summer | det |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 over | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 over | cop |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 take | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 over | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wedding | det |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the summer | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | should | the wedding | place | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent place=Theme as soon=Attribute |
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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