Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 2
A lamp burned on the table, although the weather was mild and warm, and the long curtains hung down before the open windows, and without the moon shone brightly in the dark-blue sky.
Who acts: weather · What happens: burn, be, hang down, shine · To what, where: lamp, table, long curtains, open windows, blue sky
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lamp | det |
| 2 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mild | punct |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 12 mild | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 weather | det |
| 10 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mild | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mild | cop |
| 12 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 burned | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 warm | cc |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mild | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hung | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hung | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 curtains | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 curtains | amod |
| 19 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 mild | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 hung | compound:prt |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 windows | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 windows | det |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 windows | amod |
| 25 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hung | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shone | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 shone | cc |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 moon | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 moon | det |
| 30 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shone | obl |
| 31 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hung | conj |
| 32 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 31 shone | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 sky | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sky | det |
| 35 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 blue | amod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 dark | punct |
| 37 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 sky | amod |
| 38 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shone | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | participle · passive | a lamp | the table | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the weather | mild property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the weather not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hang down | participle · passive | the long curtains | the open windows | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before window=Destination | ||||
| 5 | shine | past | the blue sky | without the moon; brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |
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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