Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 93
In a sheltered part of the wood, the sun shone upon the walls of a farm-house, brightening the blooming roses, and ripening the black juicy berries, which hung on the loaded cherry-trees, with his hot beams.
Who acts: sun, black juicy berries · What happens: shelter, shine, brighten, bloom, ripen, hang · To what, where: sheltered part, blooming roses, black juicy berries, loaded cherry trees
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, black juicy berries), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 part | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 3 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 part | amod |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shone | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shone | nsubj |
| 11 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 walls | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 walls | det |
| 14 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shone | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 17 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 farm | punct |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walls | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brightening | punct |
| 21 | brightening | brighten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 shone | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 roses | det |
| 23 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 roses | amod |
| 24 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 brightening | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ripening | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ripening | cc |
| 27 | ripening | ripen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 brightening | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 berries | det |
| 29 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 berries | amod |
| 30 | juicy | juicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 berries | amod |
| 31 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ripening | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hung | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 hung | nsubj |
| 34 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 berries | acl:relcl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 trees | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 trees | det |
| 37 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 trees | amod |
| 38 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 trees | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 cherry | punct |
| 40 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 hung | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 beams | punct |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 beams | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 beams | nmod:poss |
| 44 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 beams | amod |
| 45 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 hung | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shelter | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | shine | past | the sun | a sheltered part of the wood | upon the walls of a farm house | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location | |||
| 3 | brighten | gerund | the sun not said here | the blooming roses | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rose=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | ripen | gerund | the sun not said here | the black juicy berries | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent berry=Patient | ||||
| 6 | hang | past | the black juicy berries | the loaded cherry trees | with sun's hot beams | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location | |||
| 7 | load | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | beam | sun | nom beam «communication 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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