Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 94
Day by day, hour by hour, it unfolds more of its wonderful splendor."
Who acts: Day · What happens: unfold · To what, where: more
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 (Day), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 unfolds | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hour | punct |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | appos |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hour | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Day | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 unfolds | nsubj |
| 10 | unfolds | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 unfolds | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 splendor | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 splendor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 splendor | amod |
| 15 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 more | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 unfolds | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 unfolds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfold | present | Day by day | more | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
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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