Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 121
And suddenly the atmosphere grew as blue again as before; the forest grew red, and green, and yellow-colored.
Who acts: atmosphere, forest · What happens: grow, color
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (atmosphere, forest), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grew | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 grew | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 atmosphere | det |
| 4 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 blue | case |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | obl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 grew | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 before | case |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 grew | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 green | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 green | cc |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 red | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 colored | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 colored | cc |
| 21 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 colored | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 yellow | punct |
| 23 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 grew | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the atmosphere | again | as blue; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the forest | red property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | color | participle | the forest not said here | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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