Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 32
The sun was shining gloriously, so Karen and the old lady went along the footpath through the corn, where it was rather dusty.
Who acts: sun, Karen · What happens: shine, go, be · To what, where: corn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Karen), 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 | 4 shining | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shining | aux |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | gloriously | gloriously | ADV | _ | 4 shining | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 8 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lady | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Karen | conj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shining | conj |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 footpath | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 footpath | det |
| 16 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 corn | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 corn | det |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dusty | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 dusty | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dusty | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dusty | cop |
| 24 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 25 dusty | advmod |
| 25 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 corn | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past · progressive | the sun | gloriously property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Karen and the old lady | the corn | along the footpath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme along footpath=Initial_Location through corn=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | sun | dusty 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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