Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 40
The moon was not yet very high; it was besides rather foggy, so that in the darkness all objects seemed mingled in chaotic confusion.
Who acts: moon, darkness · What happens: not be, be, mingle · To what, where: objects, chaotic confusion
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, darkness), 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 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 high | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 high | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 high | advmod |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 foggy | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 foggy | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 foggy | cop |
| 11 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 13 foggy | mark |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 foggy | advmod |
| 13 | foggy | foggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 high | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 darkness | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 19 darkness | case |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 darkness | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 darkness | det |
| 19 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 high | parataxis |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 objects | det |
| 21 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 mingled | aux:pass |
| 23 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 darkness | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 confusion | case |
| 25 | chaotic | chaotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 confusion | amod |
| 26 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mingled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the moon | yet | high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | moon | foggy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mingle | past · passive | the darkness not said here | all objects | chaotic confusion | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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