Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 10
The sun was high in the heavens when he approached the narrow entrance to Nissum Bay.
Who acts: sun · What happens: be, approach · To what, where: heavens, narrow entrance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 high | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 high | cop |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 heavens | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heavens | det |
| 7 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 high | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 approached | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 approached | nsubj |
| 10 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 high | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 entrance | det |
| 12 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 entrance | amod |
| 13 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 approached | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Bay | case |
| 15 | Nissum | Nissum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Bay | compound |
| 16 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 entrance | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | the heavens | high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | approach | past | sun | the narrow entrance | to Nissum Bay | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=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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