Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 12
My beams cooled the glowing sands, and showed them the black rocks, dead islands in the immense ocean of sand.
Who acts: beams, My · What happens: cool, glow, show, beam · To what, where: glowing sands, beams
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beams, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 beams | nmod:poss |
| 2 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cooled | nsubj |
| 3 | cooled | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sands | det |
| 5 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sands | amod |
| 6 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cooled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 showed | cc |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cooled | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 showed | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rocks | det |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rocks | amod |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 showed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 islands | punct |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 islands | amod |
| 16 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rocks | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 ocean | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ocean | det |
| 19 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ocean | amod |
| 20 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 islands | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sand | case |
| 22 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ocean | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cooled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool | past | My beams | the glowing sands | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | show | past | My beams not said here | beams = beam | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient rock=Topic | ||||
| 4 | beam | My | nom beam «communication 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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