Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 41
Then three or four beautiful falling stars came down, which cleared the air, and gave my thoughts another direction.
Who acts: three beautiful falling stars, my · What happens: fall, come down, clear, give, think · To what, where: air, thoughts
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three beautiful falling stars, my), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 stars | nummod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 four | cc |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 three | conj |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stars | amod |
| 6 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stars | amod |
| 7 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cleared | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 cleared | nsubj |
| 12 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cleared | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obj |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 direction | det |
| 21 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come down | past | three beautiful falling stars | then | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | clear | past | the air | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent air=Source | |||||
| 4 | give | past | three beautiful falling stars not said here | my thoughts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thought=Recipient direction=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think | my | nom thought «cognition 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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