Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 2
Now he stood once more, round and bright, above the clouds, moving slowly onward.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: stand, move · To what, where: clouds
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 (Moon), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 round | punct |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bright | cc |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 round | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clouds | punct |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 clouds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clouds | det |
| 13 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 moving | punct |
| 15 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 16 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 17 onward | advmod |
| 17 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 15 moving | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Moon | the clouds | now | round property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above cloud=Location | ||
| 2 | move | gerund | Moon not said here | onward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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