Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 63
And the sun went down, round and large; the meadow was covered with vapor.
Who acts: sun · What happens: go down, cover · To what, where: meadow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 round | punct |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 large | cc |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 round | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 covered | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 meadow | det |
| 12 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 covered | aux:pass |
| 14 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 vapor | case |
| 16 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the sun | down, round property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the meadow | with vapor | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with vapor=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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