Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 24
The moon threw its beams particularly on one spot where stood a tree covered with exceedingly fine moss.
Who acts: moon · What happens: throw, stand, cover, beam · To what, where: beams, one spot, tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beams | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 spot | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 spot | nummod |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 stood | advmod |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spot | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 14 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tree | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 moss | case |
| 16 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 17 fine | advmod |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 moss | amod |
| 18 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the moon | moon's beams | one spot | particularly property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beam=Theme on spot=Destination | ||
| 2 | stand | past | a tree | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a tree not said here | with fine moss | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with moss=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beam | moon | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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