Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 116
"The bright warm sun shone on a little court, on the first warm day of spring.
Who acts: bright warm sun · What happens: shine · To what, where: little court
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright warm sun), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shone | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sun | amod |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sun | amod |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shone | nsubj |
| 6 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 court | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 court | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 court | amod |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shone | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 day | amod |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shone | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 spring | case |
| 18 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine in a quote | participle | the bright warm sun | a little court | day | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on court=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.
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