Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 245
In the evening the whole town was illuminated, and cannons fired "boom," and the soldiers presented arms.
Who acts: cannons, soldiers · What happens: illuminate, fire, present · To what, where: whole town, boom, arms
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 (cannons, soldiers), 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 | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 illuminated | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 town | amod |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 illuminated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 8 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fired | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fired | cc |
| 11 | cannons | cannon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fired | nsubj |
| 12 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 illuminated | advcl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 boom | punct |
| 14 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fired | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boom | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 boom | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 presented | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soldiers | det |
| 19 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 presented | nsubj |
| 20 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fired | conj |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 presented | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 illuminated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | illuminate | past · passive | the whole town | evening | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fire | participle | cannons | boom | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | present | past | the soldiers | arms | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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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