Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 27
And as the angel spread his wings like a veil over the sleeper, there was the sound of beautiful music and a hymn.
Who acts: angel, sound · What happens: spread, be · To what, where: wings, sleeper
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 (angel, sound), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spread | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 spread | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 angel | det |
| 4 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spread | nsubj |
| 5 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spread | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 veil | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 veil | det |
| 10 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spread | obl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 sleeper | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sleeper | det |
| 13 | sleeper | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spread | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spread | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sound | det |
| 18 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 music | case |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 music | amod |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sound | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hymn | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hymn | det |
| 24 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 music | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the angel | angel's wings | the sleeper | like a veil | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme over sleeper=Destination | ||
| 2 | be | past | the sound of beautiful music and a hymn | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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