Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 58
The sun now set: the atmosphere glowed like fire.
Who acts: sun · What happens: set, glow · To what, where: atmosphere
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 set | advmod |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 atmosphere | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 atmosphere | det |
| 7 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 8 | glowed | glow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 atmosphere | acl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glowed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the sun | the atmosphere | now | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient atmosphere=Result | |||
| 2 | glow | participle | the atmosphere not said here | like fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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