Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 8

The sun shone in upon the people in the grand first floor, and upon the people in the cellar; the acacia tree was covered with blossoms, and they fell off, and next year new ones came.

Who acts: sun, blossoms, year new ones · What happens: shine, cover, fall off, come · To what, where: acacia tree

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, blossoms, year new ones), 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	in	in	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shone	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 floor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
10	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 floor	amod
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 floor	amod
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 people	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 people	cc
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 people	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shone	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 cellar	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cellar	det
20	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 people	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 covered	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
23	acacia	acacia	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tree	compound
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 covered	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 covered	aux:pass
26	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shone	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 blossoms	case
28	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 covered	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	parataxis
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 fell	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 came	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 came	cc
36	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 year	amod
37	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ones	compound
38	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 ones	amod
39	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 came	nsubj
40	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fell	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun		upon the people in the grand first floor; upon the people in the cellar	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon people=Location
2	cover	past · passive		the acacia tree	with blossoms	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blossom=Theme
3	fall off	past	blossoms = blossom			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	come	past	year new ones			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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