Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 35

The whole day long the sun shines bright and warm, and in the night the sky shines more beautifully still; we can see that through all the little holes in it."

Who acts: sun, sky, we · What happens: shine, see · To what, where: that, little holes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, sky, we), 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 day	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shines	obl:unmarked
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 shines	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shines	nsubj
7	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shines	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 warm	cc
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bright	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shines	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shines	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 night	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shines	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sky	det
17	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shines	nsubj
18	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shines	conj
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 beautifully	advmod
20	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	21 still	advmod
21	still	still	ADV	_	18 shines	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shines	parataxis
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 see	obj
27	through	through	ADP	_	31 holes	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 holes	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 holes	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 holes	amod
31	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 holes	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	the sun			day	bright, long property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shine	present	the sky			still; night		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	can	we	that	all little holes in sky			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=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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