Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 33
The light was out, and the sun was already high in the heavens, when he mounted the tower.
Who acts: light, sun, Merchant · What happens: be, mount · To what, where: heavens, tower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, sun, Merchant), 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 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mounted | parataxis |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 out | cop |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 light | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 high | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 high | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 high | cop |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 light | amod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 heavens | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heavens | det |
| 14 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 high | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mounted | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 mounted | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mounted | nsubj |
| 18 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tower | det |
| 20 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mounted | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the light not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the sun | the heavens | high property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mount | past | Merchant | the tower | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient |
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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