Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 1

"I looked down upon Tyrol," said the Moon, "and my beams caused the dark pines to throw long shadows upon the rocks.

Who acts: Moon, beams, my · What happens: look down, say, cause, throw, beam · To what, where: dark pines, long shadows, rocks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second 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, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 Tyrol	case
6	Tyrol	Tyrol	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moon	det
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 caused	cc
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beams	nmod:poss
16	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 caused	nsubj
17	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pines	det
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pines	amod
20	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 caused	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 throw	mark
22	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 caused	advcl
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shadows	amod
24	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 throw	obj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 rocks	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rocks	det
27	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 throw	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look down in a quote	past	the Moon = moon			upon Tyrol; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon tyrol=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Moon				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cause in a quote	past	my beams	the dark pines			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pine=Patient
4	throw in a quote	to-infinitive	my beams not said here	long shadows	the rocks		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme upon rock=Destination
5	beam in a quote		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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