Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 6
This spirit sleeps through the day while the sun shines down upon the water; but in starry and moonlit nights he shows himself.
Who acts: spirit, sun · What happens: sleep, shine down, show · To what, where: water, spirit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit, sun), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sleeps | nsubj |
| 3 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sleeps | obl |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 shines | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shines | nsubj |
| 10 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sleeps | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 shines | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shines | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 shows | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 shows | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 nights | case |
| 18 | starry | starry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 nights | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 moonlit | cc |
| 20 | moonlit | moonlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 starry | conj |
| 21 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shows | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shows | nsubj |
| 23 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sleeps | conj |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 shows | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sleeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | this spirit | day | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shine down | present | the sun | the water | down property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Location | |||
| 3 | show | present | spirit | spirit | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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