Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 46
Little Tuk looked, and all was red and green before his eyes; but as soon as the confusion of colors was somewhat over, all of a sudden there appeared a wooded slope close to the bay, and high up above stood a magnificent old church, with two high pointed towers.
Who acts: Little Tuk, all, confusion · What happens: look, be, appear, wood, stand, confuse · To what, where: wooded slope, magnificent old church, colors
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Tuk, all, confusion), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Tuk | amod |
| 2 | Tuk | Tuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 red | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 red | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 red | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 red | cop |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 green | cc |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 red | conj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 red | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 appeared | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 all | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 all | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 over | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 confusion | det |
| 20 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 over | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 colors | case |
| 22 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 confusion | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 over | cop |
| 24 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 25 over | advmod |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 27 all | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 over | punct |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 appeared | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sudden | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sudden | det |
| 30 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 all | nmod |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 all | amod |
| 32 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 slope | det |
| 34 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 slope | amod |
| 35 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 appeared | obj |
| 36 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 slope | amod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 bay | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bay | det |
| 39 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 close | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 stood | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 stood | cc |
| 42 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 stood | advcl |
| 43 | up | up | ADV | _ | 44 above | advmod |
| 44 | above | above | ADV | _ | 42 high | advmod |
| 45 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 appeared | conj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 church | det |
| 47 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 church | amod |
| 48 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 church | amod |
| 49 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 stood | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 towers | punct |
| 51 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 towers | case |
| 52 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 55 towers | nummod |
| 53 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 towers | amod |
| 54 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 towers | amod |
| 55 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 stood | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Little Tuk | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | all | before Baggesen's eyes | red property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | all not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the confusion of colors | over, somewhat property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | appear | past | all | a wooded slope | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slope=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wood | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | stand | past | all not said here | a magnificent old church | with two high pointed towers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer church=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | confuse | colors | nom confusion «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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