Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 12
The Moon thinks of you, the Moon at night sends down his rays into your silent kingdom, over which hangs the crown of pine wood."
Who acts: Moon · What happens: think, send down, hang, ray, crown · To what, where: rays, silent kingdom, crown, pine wood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thinks | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sends | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moon | det |
| 8 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sends | nsubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Moon | nmod |
| 11 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinks | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sends | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 rays | nmod:poss |
| 14 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sends | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 kingdom | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 17 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kingdom | amod |
| 18 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sends | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hangs | punct |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 hangs | nsubj |
| 22 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sends | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 crown | det |
| 24 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hangs | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wood | case |
| 26 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wood | compound |
| 27 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crown | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the Moon | of you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | send down | present | the Moon at night | Moon's rays | your silent kingdom | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme | |||
| 3 | hang | present | the crown of pine wood | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient | |||||
| 4 | ray | Moon | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | crown | pine wood | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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