Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening, sentence 7
The morning dawn illuminated the red clouds, the swan rose strengthened, and flew towards the rising sun, towards the bluish coast whither the caravan had gone; but he flew alone, with a longing in his breast.
Who acts: morning dawn, swan, caravan · What happens: illuminate, rise, strengthen, fly, go · To what, where: red clouds, rising sun
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning dawn, swan, caravan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dawn | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dawn | compound |
| 3 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 illuminated | nsubj |
| 4 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clouds | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clouds | amod |
| 7 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 illuminated | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 swan | det |
| 10 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | nsubj |
| 11 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 illuminated | conj |
| 12 | strengthened | strengthen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rose | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flew | cc |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rose | conj |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 sun | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sun | det |
| 18 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sun | amod |
| 19 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 coast | punct |
| 21 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 coast | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 coast | det |
| 23 | bluish | bluish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coast | amod |
| 24 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 25 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 gone | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 caravan | det |
| 27 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gone | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 gone | aux |
| 29 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 coast | acl:relcl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 flew | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 flew | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 flew | nsubj |
| 33 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 illuminated | parataxis |
| 34 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 33 flew | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 longing | punct |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 longing | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 longing | det |
| 38 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flew | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 breast | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 breast | nmod:poss |
| 41 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 longing | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 illuminated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | illuminate | past | the morning dawn | the red clouds | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Destination | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the swan | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | strengthen | participle | the swan not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fly | past | the swan not said here | the rising sun | towards the bluish coast | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sun=Destination | |||
| 5 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | go | past · perfect | the caravan | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fly | past | caravan | alone property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP 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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