Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 100
The clear sunshine streamed so warmly through the window into the pew where Karen sat!
Who acts: clear sunshine, Karen · What happens: stream, sit · To what, where: window
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clear sunshine, Karen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:2290): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sunshine | det |
| 2 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sunshine | amod |
| 3 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 streamed | nsubj |
| 4 | streamed | stream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 warmly | advmod |
| 6 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 4 streamed | advmod |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 streamed | obl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 pew | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pew | det |
| 12 | pew | pew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 streamed | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 sat | advmod |
| 14 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pew | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 streamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | past | the clear sunshine | the window | into the pew; warmly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past | Karen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/100/