Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 8
The learned man would sometimes go out into the balcony to stretch himself also; and as soon as the stars came forth in the clear, beautiful sky, he felt revived.
Who acts: learned man, stars, man · What happens: learn, go out, stretch, come, feel, revive · To what, where: balcony, man, clear beautiful sky
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 (learned man, stars, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 go | advmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 balcony | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 balcony | det |
| 10 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stretch | mark |
| 12 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | advcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 stretch | obj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 stretch | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 soon | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 soon | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 go | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stars | det |
| 21 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 soon | advcl |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 sky | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sky | det |
| 26 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sky | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clear | punct |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sky | amod |
| 29 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 felt | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 felt | nsubj |
| 32 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 came | conj |
| 33 | revived | revive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 felt | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | go out | would | the learned man | the balcony | out, sometimes, soon property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | stretch | to-infinitive | the learned man not said here | man | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the stars | the clear beautiful sky | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location | |||
| 5 | feel | past | man | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | revive | participle | man not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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