Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 153
He felt the warm sun shining, and heard the lark singing, and saw that all around was beautiful spring.
Who acts: door, warm sun, lark · What happens: feel, shine, hear, sing, see, be · To what, where: warm sun, lark
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, warm sun, lark), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sun | amod |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 6 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lark | det |
| 11 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 lark | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 spring | mark |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 around | advmod |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 beautiful | cop |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spring | amod |
| 21 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | door | the warm sun | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | the warm sun not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | the lark | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lark=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | the lark not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | around, beautiful 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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