Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 85
A falling star shone in the dark firmament.
What happens: fall, shine · To what, where: falling star, dark firmament
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 star | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 firmament | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 firmament | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 firmament | amod |
| 8 | firmament | firmament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 star | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | shine | participle | a falling star not said here | the dark firmament | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in firmament=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/6/85/