Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 175
Towards evening, when the moon rose beautifully, though not yet in her full splendor, I glanced from my bed over the wide sea; and there, just where the sea and sky met, rose a curious white cloud.
Who acts: moon, I, sea · What happens: rise, glance, meet · To what, where: curious white cloud
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, I, sea), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 rose | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 7 rose | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 yet | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 yet | mark |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 yet | advmod |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 rose | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 splendor | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 splendor | nmod:poss |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 splendor | amod |
| 16 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yet | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 glanced | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 glanced | nsubj |
| 19 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bed | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glanced | obl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 25 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sea | amod |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glanced | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 met | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 met | cc |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 met | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 met | punct |
| 31 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 met | advmod |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 met | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sea | det |
| 34 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 met | nsubj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sky | cc |
| 36 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sea | conj |
| 37 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 rose | punct |
| 39 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 met | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 cloud | det |
| 41 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 cloud | amod |
| 42 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 cloud | amod |
| 43 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rose | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the moon | yet; evening | beautifully property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | glance | past | I | over the wide sea; from my bed | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from bed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | the sea and sky | there | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | the sea and sky not said here | a curious white cloud | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme |
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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