Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 65
And yonder, where sea and sky meet, stood the sun, like a large shining altar, all melted together in the most glowing colors.
Who acts: sea · What happens: meet, stand, shine, melt, glow · To what, where: sun, glowing colors
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 (sea), 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 | _ | 8 meet | cc |
| 2 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 8 meet | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 meet | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 meet | advmod |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sky | cc |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sea | conj |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 meet | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 altar | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 altar | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 altar | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 altar | amod |
| 17 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 altar | amod |
| 18 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 melted | punct |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 melted | advmod |
| 21 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stood | conj |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 melted | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 colors | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 colors | det |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 glowing | advmod |
| 26 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 colors | amod |
| 27 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 melted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | sea and sky | yonder property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the sun | like a large shining altar | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | melt | participle | the glowing colors | all, together property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | glow | gerund | 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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