Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 138
When the gray dawn arose and the moon turned pale and the clouds were tinted red, the wished-for hour struck.
Who acts: gray dawn, moon · What happens: arise, turn, tint, wish, strike · To what, where: clouds, wished hour
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gray dawn, moon), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 arose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dawn | det |
| 3 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dawn | compound |
| 4 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | nsubj |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arose | conj |
| 10 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 turned | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tinted | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clouds | det |
| 13 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tinted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tinted | aux:pass |
| 15 | tinted | tint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arose | conj |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tinted | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hour | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hour | det |
| 19 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hour | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wished | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 hour | case |
| 22 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tinted | parataxis |
| 23 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hour | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the gray dawn | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | the moon | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tint | past · passive | the clouds | red property | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wish | participle | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 5 | strike | participle | the wished hour not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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