Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 198
On New Year's morning it was a bright sunshiny day.
Who acts: more · What happens: be · To what, where: bright sunshiny day
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Year | compound |
| 3 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 morning | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Year | case |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 day | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 day | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 10 | sunshiny | sunshiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | more | a bright sunshiny day | morning | 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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