Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 53
Suddenly something shone up among the trees, and she believed it was the moon, for it was a face.
Who acts: something, Karen, wood · What happens: shine up, believe, be · To what, where: trees, moon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (something, Karen, wood), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 shone | advmod |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 shone | compound:prt |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shone | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 believed | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 believed | nsubj |
| 11 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shone | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 moon | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 moon | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moon | det |
| 15 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believed | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 face | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 face | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 face | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 face | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 face | det |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine up | participle | something | the trees | suddenly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location | |||
| 2 | believe | past | Karen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | wood | the moon | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | wood | for a face | 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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