Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 10
Their watches pointed to the hours of evening, and time to go to sleep, although in these regions it was now always night.
Who acts: sleep · What happens: point, go, be · To what, where: watches, sleep, night
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 watches | nmod:poss |
| 2 | watches | watch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 watches | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hours | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hours | det |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pointed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 evening | case |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hours | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 time | cc |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watches | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sleep | case |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 regions | punct |
| 17 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 20 regions | case |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 regions | case |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 regions | det |
| 20 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 go | obl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 night | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 night | cop |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 night | advmod |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 night | advmod |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 regions | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | participle | natives's watches and time not said here | hour | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | sleep | although this regions | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | sleep | night | now | always 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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