Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 83
When the wind slept, and the clouds glowed with the red sunlight, then the sea looked like a rose leaf.
Who acts: wind, clouds, sea · What happens: sleep, glow, look
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (wind, clouds, sea), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 slept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glowed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glowed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 glowed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clouds | det |
| 8 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glowed | nsubj |
| 9 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sunlight | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sunlight | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sunlight | amod |
| 13 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glowed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 looked | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glowed | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 leaf | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 leaf | det |
| 21 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leaf | compound |
| 22 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 glowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the wind | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | glow | past | the clouds | with the red sunlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sunlight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the sea | then | like a rose leaf | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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