Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 9
"On this evening, as usual, stillness reigned around; and in the full beam of my light came the little granddaughter.
Who acts: evening, my · What happens: reign around, come, beam, light · To what, where: stillness, little granddaughter, light
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 evening | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 usual | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 usual | case |
| 7 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evening | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stillness | punct |
| 9 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 usual | conj |
| 10 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stillness | acl |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 reigned | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 beam | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beam | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 beam | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beam | det |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beam | amod |
| 17 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 light | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 light | nmod:poss |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beam | nmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 granddaughter | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 granddaughter | amod |
| 24 | granddaughter | granddaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign around in a quote | participle | stillness not said here | around property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | this evening and the full beam of my light | the little granddaughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location granddaughter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beam in a quote | my light | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | light in a quote | my | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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