Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 67
The sun shone warm and bright, and he found out that it was a very good place.
Who acts: sun, last · What happens: shine, find out, be · To what, where: good place
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, last), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shone | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bright | cc |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warm | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shone | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 found | compound:prt |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 place | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 place | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 good | advmod |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | warm property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find out | past | sun | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | last | a good place | tree rules |
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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