Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 31
The sun shone gloriously; Karen and the old lady walked along the path through the corn; it was rather dusty there.
Who acts: sun, Karen · What happens: shine, walk, be · To what, where: corn
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 (sun, Karen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gloriously | gloriously | ADV | _ | 3 shone | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 6 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lady | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lady | amod |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Karen | conj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shone | conj |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 path | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 path | det |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 corn | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 corn | det |
| 17 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 dusty | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dusty | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dusty | cop |
| 21 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 22 dusty | advmod |
| 22 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shone | conj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 dusty | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | gloriously property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | Karen and the old lady | the corn | along the path | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | past | sun | there | dusty property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/31/