Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 85
Hand in hand the two wandered beneath the fresh pendant canopy of foliage, while the sun's rays gleamed through the opening of the shade, in changing and varied colors.
Who acts: Hand, rays, sun · What happens: wander, gleam, change, ray · To what, where: fresh pendant canopy, opening
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 (Hand, rays, 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 | Hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hand | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 two | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hand | appos |
| 6 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 11 canopy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 canopy | det |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 canopy | amod |
| 10 | pendant | pendant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 canopy | amod |
| 11 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 foliage | case |
| 13 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 canopy | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gleamed | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 gleamed | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rays | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 sun | case |
| 19 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gleamed | nsubj |
| 20 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wandered | conj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 opening | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 opening | det |
| 23 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gleamed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 shade | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shade | det |
| 26 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opening | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 changing | punct |
| 28 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 29 changing | mark |
| 29 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 gleamed | advcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 colors | cc |
| 31 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 colors | amod |
| 32 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 changing | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Hand in hand | the fresh pendant canopy of foliage | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath canopy=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | gleam | participle | the sun's rays | the opening of the shade | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through opening=Location | ||||
| 3 | change | gerund | the sun's rays not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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