Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 247
The prince saw it sinking down in the dark night till it shone only like a star in the distance beneath him.
Who acts: prince, sleep · What happens: see, sink down, shine · To what, where: sleep, star
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, sleep), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 sinking | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 night | amod |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sinking | obl |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 shone | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shone | nsubj |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | advcl |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 star | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 star | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 star | det |
| 17 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shone | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 distance | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 distance | det |
| 20 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 star | nmod |
| 21 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 distance | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the prince | sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink down | gerund | sleep not said here | night | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | shine | past | sleep | a star | in the distance beneath prince | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=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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