Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 51
It was a real star shining down upon them as if it would show them the way.
Who acts: star, real star · What happens: be, shine down, show · To what, where: real star, stove
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star, real star), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 star | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 star | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 star | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 star | amod |
| 5 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 star | acl |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 shining | advmod |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shining | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 show | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shining | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 show | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 star | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | star | a real star | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine down | gerund | a real star not said here | upon stove; down property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | ||||
| 3 | show | would | star | stove | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient way=Topic |
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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