Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 31
See," they said, "how the sun shines, and the clouds float in the blue sky.
Who acts: you, drops, sun, clouds · What happens: see, say, shine, float · To what, where: blue sky · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, drops, sun, clouds), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 shines | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 shines | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shines | nsubj |
| 11 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 float | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 float | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clouds | det |
| 15 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 float | nsubj |
| 16 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sky | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sky | det |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sky | amod |
| 20 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 float | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | drops = drop | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shine | present | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | float | present | the clouds | the blue sky | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Trajectory |
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/pg27200/14/31/