Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 52
And with these words the moon hid herself again behind the clouds, that she might be saved from further importunities.
Who acts: moon · What happens: hide, save · To what, where: moon, clouds, further importunities
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 (moon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hid | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hid | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hid | nsubj |
| 7 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 hid | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 hid | advmod |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 clouds | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clouds | det |
| 12 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saved | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 saved | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saved | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 saved | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 saved | aux:pass |
| 18 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hid | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 importunities | case |
| 20 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 importunities | amod |
| 21 | importunities | importunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 saved | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | the moon | moon | the clouds | again | with this words | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient behind cloud=Location | |
| 2 | save | might · passive | moon | further importunities | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from importunity=Source |
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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