Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 54

The sky, with all its stars, was over their heads, and below were the roofs of the town.

Who acts: sky · What happens: be · To what, where: heads, roofs

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 (sky), 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 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heads	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stars	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 stars	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 stars	det:predet
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stars	nmod:poss
7	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sky	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sky	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heads	cop
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 heads	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heads	nmod:poss
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 roofs	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 roofs	cc
15	below	below	ADP	_	18 roofs	case
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 roofs	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roofs	det
18	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heads	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 town	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 town	det
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 roofs	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 heads	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sky and last's stars			sky's heads and the roofs			tree rules
2	is	past	the sky and last's stars not said here			the roofs		of the town	tree rules

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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