Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 117

Nature showed herself to him sometimes in the dark forests, at others in cheerful meadows where the storks were strutting about, or on the deck of a ship sailing across the foaming sea with the clear, blue sky above, or at night the glittering stars. "

Who acts: Nature, storks, ship · What happens: show, strut, sail, foam · To what, where: Nature, man, deck, foaming sea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nature, storks, ship), 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	Nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 showed	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	obl
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 forests	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 forests	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forests	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 forests	amod
10	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 showed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 others	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 others	case
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 showed	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 meadows	case
15	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 meadows	amod
16	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 others	nmod
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 strutting	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 storks	det
19	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 strutting	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 strutting	aux
21	strutting	strut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 meadows	acl:relcl
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 strutting	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 deck	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 deck	cc
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 deck	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 deck	det
27	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strutting	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 ship	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 ship	det
30	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deck	nmod
31	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 ship	acl
32	across	across	ADP	_	35 sea	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sea	det
34	foaming	foam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 sea	amod
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sailing	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	41 sky	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sky	det
38	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sky	amod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 clear	punct
40	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sky	amod
41	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sailing	obl
42	above	above	ADV	_	41 sky	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 night	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 night	cc
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 night	case
46	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strutting	obl:unmarked
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 stars	det
48	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 stars	compound
49	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 night	nsubj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 others	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	Nature	Nature	man			at others in cheerful meadows; in the dark forests	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Patient to he=Recipient in forest=Topic
2	strut	past · progressive	the storks			the deck of a ship	night	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Trajectory
3	sail	gerund	a ship not said here			the foaming sea		with the clear blue sky	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across sea=Trajectory
4	foam	gerund							vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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