Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 9
The sky, cleared from the snow, looked more lofty and transparent, while the stars shone with new brightness and purity.
Who acts: sky, stars · What happens: clear, look, shine · To what, where: sky, snow
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 (sky, stars), 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 | 2 sky | det |
| 2 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleared | punct |
| 4 | cleared | clear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sky | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 snow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snow | det |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sky | punct |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 lofty | advmod |
| 11 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 transparent | cc |
| 13 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lofty | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shone | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 shone | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stars | det |
| 17 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shone | nsubj |
| 18 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 brightness | case |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 brightness | amod |
| 21 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shone | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 purity | cc |
| 23 | purity | purity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brightness | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear | participle | the sky not said here | the snow | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme from snow=Source | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the sky | lofty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shine | past | the stars | with new brightness and purity | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with brightness=Theme |
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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