Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 64
It was in the warm summer-time: not a breeze moved through the glowing hot days.
Who acts: sky · What happens: be, move, glow · To what, where: breeze
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 (sky), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 summer | punct |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 breeze | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 breeze | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 breeze | det |
| 12 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | parataxis |
| 13 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 breeze | acl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 days | det |
| 16 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 days | amod |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 moved | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sky | in the warm summer time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | participle | a breeze not said here | day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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