Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 29
Spring came, and one morning early the sun shone brightly through the little window, and threw its rays over the floor of the room.
Who acts: Spring, sun · What happens: come, shine, throw, ray · To what, where: little window, rays, floor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spring, sun), 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 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shone | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shone | cc |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 morning | nummod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shone | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 shone | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shone | nsubj |
| 10 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 11 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 10 shone | advmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 window | amod |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shone | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 threw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 threw | cc |
| 18 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 rays | nmod:poss |
| 20 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 threw | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 floor | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 floor | det |
| 23 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 floor | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shine | past | the sun | the little window | morning | brightly, early property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location | ||
| 3 | throw | past | sun's rays | the floor of the room | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ray=Theme over floor=Destination | ||||
| 4 | ray | sun | nom ray «phenomenon 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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