Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 56
The moon shone upon the floor, the box lay open, and the dolls were all scattered about in great confusion; but I was not idle.
Who acts: moon, box, I · What happens: shine, lie, scatter, not be · To what, where: floor, dolls
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, box, I), 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 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floor | det |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shone | parataxis |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lay | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scattered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 scattered | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dolls | det |
| 15 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 scattered | aux:pass |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 scattered | advmod |
| 18 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lay | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 confusion | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 confusion | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 confusion | amod |
| 22 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scattered | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 idle | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 idle | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 idle | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 idle | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 idle | advmod |
| 28 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shone | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the moon | the floor | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon floor=Location | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the box | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | scatter | past · passive | the dolls | about great confusion; all property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme about confusion=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | I | idle property | 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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