Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 9
Above it stretched the smoky cloud in the silence of the night, like the crown of the pine, but in a blood-red illumination.
Who acts: air · What happens: stretch, silence, crown · To what, where: smoky cloud, night, pine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloud | det |
| 5 | smoky | smoky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cloud | amod |
| 6 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 silence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 silence | det |
| 9 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 silence | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crown | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 crown | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crown | det |
| 16 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pine | det |
| 19 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crown | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 illumination | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 illumination | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 illumination | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 illumination | det |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 red | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 blood | punct |
| 26 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 illumination | amod |
| 27 | illumination | illumination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | air | the smoky cloud | like the crown of the pine; in a red illumination; in the silence of the night | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient in silence=Topic | |||
| 2 | silence | the night | nom silence «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | crown | the pine | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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: «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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