Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 199
There was no window in the hut, only a hole in the wall; and the sun rose like a globe of burnished gold, and looked through.
Who acts: window, sun · What happens: be, rise, burnish, look through · To what, where: hut
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (window, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 window | det |
| 4 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hut | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hut | det |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hole | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 hole | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hole | det |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hut | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wall | det |
| 14 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hole | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rose | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rose | nsubj |
| 19 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 globe | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 globe | det |
| 22 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rose | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 24 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 gold | amod |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 globe | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looked | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 looked | cc |
| 28 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rose | conj |
| 29 | through | through | ADV | _ | 28 looked | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no window | the hut; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the sun | like a globe of burnished gold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | burnish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | look through | past | the sun not said here | through property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/199/