Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 25
But to-day the sun shines here--the warm, beautiful sun of God is within the little room; it comes from the south through the new window, where formerly the wall was.
Who acts: sun, warm beautiful sun, piece, wall · What happens: shine, be, come · To what, where: south
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, warm beautiful sun, piece, wall), 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 | _ | 7 shines | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 to | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shines | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shines | nsubj |
| 7 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 shines | advmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 room | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sun | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 warm | punct |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sun | amod |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 room | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sun | nmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 room | cop |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 room | amod |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shines | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 comes | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 comes | nsubj |
| 24 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shines | parataxis |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 south | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 south | det |
| 27 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 comes | obl |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 window | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 window | det |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 window | amod |
| 31 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 comes | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 was | punct |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 formerly | advmod |
| 34 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 37 was | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wall | det |
| 36 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 was | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 comes | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | the sun | here | day | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | the warm beautiful sun of God | within the little room | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | piece | the south | through the new window | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from south=Initial_Location through window=Destination | |||
| 4 | be | past | the wall | formerly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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