Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 22
He raises his head, and--" But at this moment a cloud passed before the Moon, and then another.
Who acts: lion · What happens: raise, pass · To what, where: head, cloud, Moon
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 (lion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raises | nsubj |
| 2 | raises | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raises | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 raises | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 another | cc |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 another | punct |
| 9 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 another | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 another | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cloud | det |
| 14 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 another | nsubj |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cloud | acl |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 Moon | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Moon | det |
| 18 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 passed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 another | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 another | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 another | advmod |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 raises | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | present | lion | lion's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass in a quote | participle | a cloud not said here | the Moon | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before moon=Location |
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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