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

"It was yesterday, in the morning twilight"--these are the words the Moon told me--"in the great city no chimney was yet smoking--and it was just at the chimneys that I was looking.

Who acts: It, these, Moon, chimney · What happens: be, tell, smoke, look · To what, where: yesterday, words, me, great city, chimneys · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, these, Moon, chimney), 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 yesterday	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yesterday	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yesterday	cop
4	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 twilight	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 twilight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 twilight	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 twilight	compound
9	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yesterday	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 twilight	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 words	punct
12	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 words	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 words	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 yesterday	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Moon	det
17	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 words	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 smoking	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 smoking	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 city	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 city	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 city	amod
25	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smoking	obl
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 chimney	det
27	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smoking	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 smoking	aux
29	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 smoking	advmod
30	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 told	advcl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 chimneys	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 chimneys	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 chimneys	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 chimneys	cop
35	just	just	ADV	_	38 chimneys	advmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 chimneys	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 chimneys	det
38	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 smoking	obl
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 looking	obl
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 looking	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 looking	aux
42	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 chimneys	acl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 yesterday	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	It	yesterday and the words				tree rules
2	is a	present	these	the words				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	the Moon		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	smoke in a quote	past · progressive	no chimney			the great city	yet	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	past	chimney			the chimneys		tree rules
6	look in a quote	past · progressive	the Moon = moon	the chimneys				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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