Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 9
The sun went down, and the full moon rose, large, round, and clear, shining in the deep blue.
Who acts: sun, full moon · What happens: go down, rise, shine · To what, where: deep blue
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, full moon), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rose | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moon | det |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moon | amod |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 large | punct |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rose | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 round | punct |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 large | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clear | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clear | cc |
| 17 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 large | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shining | punct |
| 19 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 rose | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 blue | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 blue | det |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 blue | amod |
| 23 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shining | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the sun | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the full moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | the full moon not said here | the deep blue | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blue=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/9/