Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 20
The sun shone with great heat, and not a cloud was to be seen in the sky.
Who acts: sun · What happens: shine, see · To what, where: cloud, sky
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 heat | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heat | amod |
| 6 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seen | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 cloud | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cloud | det |
| 11 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shone | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | participle | the sun | with great heat | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | a cloud | the sky | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/20/