Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 69
Next morning the sun shone in upon the little flattened Snowdrop, that looked as if it had been painted upon the floor.
Who acts: sun, flattened Snowdrop · What happens: shine, flatten, look, paint · To what, where: flattened Snowdrop, little, sun, floor
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 (sun, flattened Snowdrop), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shone | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shone | nsubj |
| 5 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 shone | advmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 Snowdrop | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Snowdrop | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flattened | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | flattened | flatten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Snowdrop | amod |
| 11 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shone | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Snowdrop | acl:relcl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 painted | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 painted | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 painted | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 painted | aux:pass |
| 20 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 looked | ccomp |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 floor | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 floor | det |
| 23 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 painted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | the flattened Snowdrop | morning | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon snowdrop=Location | |||
| 2 | flatten | participle | little | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the flattened Snowdrop | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | paint a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | sun | the floor | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon floor=Destination |
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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