Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 54
When he awoke, it was still night; but the storm had ceased, and the moon shone in upon him through the windows.
Who acts: weather, lightning, storm, moon · What happens: awake, be, cease, shine · To what, where: night, windows
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 (weather, lightning, storm, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 night | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 night | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 night | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 night | advmod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ceased | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 ceased | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 storm | det |
| 12 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ceased | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ceased | aux |
| 14 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 awoke | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shone | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shone | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moon | det |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shone | nsubj |
| 19 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 shone | advmod |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shone | obl |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 windows | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 windows | det |
| 25 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shone | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | weather | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | lightning | night | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cease | past · perfect | the storm | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | shine | past | the moon | the windows | upon weather | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
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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