Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 18

The sun shone brightly down on the green trees, as if it would say, "You must not be so sorrowful, John.

Who acts: sun, You · What happens: shine, say, not be · To what, where: green trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, You), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shone	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 say	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 say	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 say	aux
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shone	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sorrowful	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 sorrowful	punct
18	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 sorrowful	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 sorrowful	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 sorrowful	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 sorrowful	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 sorrowful	advmod
23	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 say	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 John	punct
25	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sorrowful	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun	the green trees	down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	would	sun			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is in a quote	must	You		John obl; sorrowful property	tree rules

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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