Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 92
And the sun shone so clearly, and straight before her stood the angel of God in white garments, the same she had seen that night at the church door; but he no longer carried the sharp sword, but in its stead a splendid green spray, full of roses.
Who acts: sun, family, God · What happens: shine, stand, see, carry · To what, where: angel, white garments, same, church door, sharp sword, stead
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, family, God), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shone | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | nsubj |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 clearly | advmod |
| 6 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 4 shone | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 stood | mark |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shone | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 angel | det |
| 14 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 angel | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 garments | case |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 garments | amod |
| 19 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seen | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 same | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 garments | acl |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 door | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 door | det |
| 30 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 door | compound |
| 31 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 carried | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 carried | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 carried | nsubj |
| 35 | no | no | ADV | _ | 36 longer | advmod |
| 36 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 carried | advmod |
| 37 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shone | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sword | det |
| 39 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 sword | amod |
| 40 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 carried | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 stead | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 stead | cc |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 stead | case |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 stead | nmod:poss |
| 45 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 carried | obl |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 spray | det |
| 47 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 spray | amod |
| 48 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 spray | amod |
| 49 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 stead | appos |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 full | punct |
| 51 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 spray | amod |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 roses | case |
| 53 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 full | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 stead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | clearly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | family | the angel of God | white garments | straight property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent angel=Theme in garment=Destination | ||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | the same | the church door | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | carry | past | God | the sharp sword | sun's stead | long property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Value in stead=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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