Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 103
More than a year had passed since the princess had set out at night, when the light of the young moon was soon lost beneath the horizon.
What happens: pass, set out, lose, light · To what, where: princess, light, young moon
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 year | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | aux |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 set | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | aux |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 passed | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lost | punct |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 lost | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 moon | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moon | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 moon | amod |
| 22 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 light | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lost | aux:pass |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 lost | advmod |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 passed | parataxis |
| 26 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 28 horizon | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 horizon | det |
| 28 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set out | past · perfect · passive | the princess | night | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | the light of the young moon | beneath the horizon; soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | light | the young moon | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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