Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 174
Even the elder-tree bent down its bows into the water before him, and the sun shone warm and bright.
Who acts: elder tree, sun · What happens: bend down, shine · To what, where: bows, water
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 (elder tree, 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 6 bent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 elder | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | nsubj |
| 6 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 bent | compound:prt |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bows | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bent | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | obl |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shone | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shone | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shone | nsubj |
| 19 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bent | conj |
| 20 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shone | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bright | cc |
| 22 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 warm | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | participle | the elder tree | ugliness's bows | the water | before water | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent bow=Material into water=Product | ||
| 2 | shine | past | the sun | warm property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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