Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 51

But far across the bay, when the sky was clear, the towers of Copenhagen could be seen; and on the day of his confirmation he saw distinctly the golden cross on the principal church glittering in the sun. How often his thoughts were with Joanna! but did she think of him?

Who acts: sky, Copenhagen, principal church, thoughts, Joanna · What happens: be, see, glitter, think, confirm · To what, where: bay, golden cross, principal church, sun.

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (sky, Copenhagen, principal church, thoughts), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 seen	cc
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 bay	advmod
3	across	across	ADP	_	5 bay	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bay	det
5	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	nsubj:pass
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 clear	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 clear	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clear	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 clear	cop
11	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bay	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 towers	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 towers	det
14	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bay	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Copenhagen	case
16	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 towers	nmod
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 seen	aux:pass
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 saw	cc
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 confirmation	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 confirmation	nmod:poss
27	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 day	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	parataxis
30	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	33 cross	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cross	det
32	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cross	amod
33	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 church	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 church	det
36	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 church	amod
37	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cross	nmod
38	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 church	acl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 sun.	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sun.	det
41	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 glittering	obl
42	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 often	advmod
43	often	often	ADV	_	48 Joanna	advmod
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 thoughts	nmod:poss
45	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 Joanna	nsubj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 Joanna	cop
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 Joanna	case
48	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 glittering	obl
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 cross	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 think	cc
51	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 think	aux
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 think	nsubj
53	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 saw	conj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 him	case
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 think	obl
56	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sky				clear property	tree rules
2	see	could · passive		the bay and the towers of Copenhagen				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	see	past	Copenhagen	the golden cross	the principal church	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus
4	glitter	gerund	the principal church not said here		the sun.			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun.=Location
5	is	past	Copenhagen's thoughts				with Joanna; often property	tree rules
6	think speech: other	past · do-support	Joanna				of Copenhagen	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	confirm		Copenhagen					nom confirmation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	think		Copenhagen					nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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