Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 8
The whole caravan thought of the same thing; therefore, the rising dawn seemed to them a message from the sun, of fortune that was to gleam brightly upon them.
Who acts: whole caravan, rising dawn, fortune · What happens: think, rise, seem, be · To what, where: message, mothers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole caravan, rising dawn, fortune), 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 | 3 caravan | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caravan | amod |
| 3 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 10 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 15 seemed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 therefore | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dawn | det |
| 13 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 dawn | amod |
| 14 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seemed | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 message | det |
| 19 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 sun | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 message | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fortune | punct |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fortune | case |
| 25 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 gleam | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 gleam | cop |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 gleam | mark |
| 29 | gleam | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 fortune | acl:relcl |
| 30 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 29 gleam | advmod |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gleam | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the whole caravan | of the same thing | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | seem | past | the rising dawn | a message from the sun | mothers = mother | of fortune; therefore property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||
| 4 | is | past | fortune | upon mothers = mother; brightly, gleam property | tree rules |
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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