Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 104
Strengthened by the cool bath, he sat in the warm sunshine, while all around him renewed nature bloomed strong, luxuriant, and beautiful: it was summer, warm, lovely summer.
Who acts: sun, sunshine · What happens: strengthen, sit, renew, bloom, be · To what, where: warm sunshine, nature, summer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, sunshine), 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 | Strengthened | strengthen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sat | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 bath | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bath | det |
| 4 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bath | amod |
| 5 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Strengthened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strengthened | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sunshine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sunshine | det |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sunshine | amod |
| 12 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 renewed | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 renewed | mark |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 renewed | advmod |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 renewed | obl |
| 18 | renewed | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sat | conj |
| 19 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 renewed | obj |
| 20 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 nature | acl |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bloomed | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 luxuriant | punct |
| 23 | luxuriant | luxuriant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 strong | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beautiful | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 beautiful | cc |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sat | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 summer | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 summer | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 summer | cop |
| 30 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 summer | punct |
| 32 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 summer | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 warm | punct |
| 34 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 summer | amod |
| 35 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 summer | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strengthen | participle | sun not said here | by the cool bath | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | sun | the warm sunshine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location | ||||
| 3 | renew | past | sun not said here | nature | around sun; all property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nature=Patient | |||
| 4 | bloom | participle | nature not said here | strong property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | sunshine | summer and warm lovely summer | 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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