Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 62

She saw the stars shining, so large and so bright, and she saw the moon gleaming; and then she saw the sun rise, and mount higher and higher.

Who acts: plenty, stars, moon, sun · What happens: see, shine, gleam, rise · To what, where: stars, moon

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, stars, moon, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stars	det
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
5	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stars	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 large	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 large	advmod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bright	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 bright	advmod
11	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 large	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moon	det
17	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
18	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 moon	acl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 saw	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sun	det
25	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rise	nsubj
26	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 saw	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 higher	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 higher	cc
29	mount	mount	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 higher	obl:unmarked
30	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 saw	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 higher	cc
32	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 higher	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	see	past	plenty	the stars		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus
2	shine	gerund	the stars not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	plenty	the moon		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus
4	gleam	gerund	the moon not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past	plenty		then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	rise	infinitive	the sun			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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