Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 1

In very hot climates, where the heat of the sun has great power, people are usually as brown as mahogany; and in the hottest countries they are negroes, with black skins.

Who acts: heat, people, sun · What happens: have, be, heat · To what, where: great power, hot climates, negroes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heat, people, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 climates	case
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 hot	advmod
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 climates	amod
4	climates	climate	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 has	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 climates	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 has	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heat	det
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heat	nmod
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 power	amod
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brown	punct
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 brown	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 brown	cop
18	usually	usually	ADV	_	20 brown	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 brown	advmod
20	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 has	conj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 mahogany	case
22	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brown	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 countries	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 countries	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 countries	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 countries	det
27	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 countries	amod
28	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 has	obj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 negroes	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 negroes	cop
31	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 countries	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 skins	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 skins	case
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 skins	amod
35	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 negroes	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the heat of the sun	great power	hot climates		tree rules
2	is	present	people			as mahogany; brown, usually property	tree rules
3	is a	present	people	negroes and black skins			tree rules
4	heat		the sun				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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