Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 108
She stood on the balcony and shone as the Aurora Borealis shines.
Who acts: sleep · What happens: stand, shine · To what, where: balcony
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 balcony | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 balcony | det |
| 5 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shone | cc |
| 7 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stood | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 shines | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shines | det |
| 10 | Aurora | Aurora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Borealis | compound |
| 11 | Borealis | Borealis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shines | compound |
| 12 | shines | shine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shone | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | sleep | the balcony | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on balcony=Location | ||||
| 2 | shine | participle | sleep not said here | as the Borealis shines | 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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