Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 165
The sun still threw its rays upon the tree, and the refreshing dew fell upon it as of old; and it was so overloaded with fruit that the branches bent towards the earth with the weight. "
Who acts: sun, refreshing dew · What happens: throw, refresh, fall, overload, bend, ray · To what, where: rays, tree, sun, dew, branches
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, refreshing dew), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 threw | advmod |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 rays | nmod:poss |
| 6 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dew | det |
| 13 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 dew | amod |
| 14 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 20 old | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fell | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 overloaded | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 overloaded | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 overloaded | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 overloaded | aux:pass |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 overloaded | advmod |
| 26 | overloaded | overload | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 threw | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 fruit | case |
| 28 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 overloaded | obl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 bent | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 branches | det |
| 31 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 overloaded | advcl |
| 33 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 35 earth | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 earth | det |
| 35 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bent | obl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 weight | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 weight | det |
| 38 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 earth | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the sun | sun's rays | the tree | still | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ray=Theme upon tree=Destination | ||
| 2 | refresh | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | fall | past | the refreshing dew | sun | as old | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location | |||
| 4 | overload | past · passive | dew | with fruit | vn spray-9.7 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fruit=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bend | participle · passive | the branches | towards the earth with the weight | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | ||||
| 6 | ray | sun | nom ray «phenomenon 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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