Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 107
The evening sky shone like gold, no church dome could ever gleam so brightly, and between the golden evening and the blushing morning there was moonlight.
Who acts: evening sky · What happens: shine, gleam, blush · To what, where: evening sky
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 (evening sky), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sky | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sky | compound |
| 3 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gleam | nsubj |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sky | acl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gleam | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 dome | det |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dome | compound |
| 10 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gleam | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 gleam | aux |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 gleam | advmod |
| 13 | gleam | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 brightly | advmod |
| 15 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 13 gleam | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 evening | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 evening | cc |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 evening | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 evening | det |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 evening | amod |
| 21 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gleam | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 morning | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 morning | det |
| 24 | blushing | blush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 morning | amod |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 evening | conj |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 was | expl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 morning | acl:relcl |
| 28 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 was | nsubj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gleam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | participle | the evening sky not said here | like gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gleam | could | the evening sky | ever; evening | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | blush | gerund | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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