Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 106
But Summer and his bosom-wife saw it with different eyes, to them the altar-table was covered with the offerings of nature.
Who acts: Summer · What happens: see, cover, offer · To what, where: sunshine, altar table, eyes, nature
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 (Summer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 2 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wife | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bosom | punct |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Summer | conj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 covered | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 covered | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 table | det |
| 17 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 table | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 altar | punct |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 covered | aux:pass |
| 21 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 saw | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 offerings | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 offerings | det |
| 24 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 covered | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 nature | case |
| 26 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 offerings | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Summer and sun's bosom wife | sunshine | with different eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the altar table | eyes = eye | with the offerings of nature | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with offering=Theme | |||
| 3 | offer | nature | nom offering «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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