Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 129
Were the saloons like the starlit firmament when we stand on the high mountains?”
Who acts: we · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: saloons, high mountains
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 (we), 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saloons | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 saloons | det |
| 3 | saloons | saloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 firmament | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 firmament | det |
| 6 | starlit | starlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 firmament | amod |
| 7 | firmament | firmament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saloons | nmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 stand | advmod |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 stand | nsubj |
| 10 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 firmament | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mountains | amod |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stand | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 saloons | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saloons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the saloons | like the starlit firmament | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | we | the high mountains | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location |
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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