Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 234
And the sun shone without, while within the censers were waved and the Mass was celebrated.
Who acts: sun · What happens: shine, wave, celebrate · To what, where: censers, Mass
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shone | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | nsubj |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 shone | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waved | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 waved | mark |
| 8 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 waved | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 censers | det |
| 10 | censers | censer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 waved | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 waved | aux:pass |
| 12 | waved | wave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shone | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 celebrated | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Mass | det |
| 15 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 celebrated | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 17 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 waved | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wave | past · passive | the censers | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | celebrate | past · passive | the Mass | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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