Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 49
It was yet day when the lamps were lit.
Who acts: glance · What happens: be, lit · To what, where: day, lamps
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glance), 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 | 4 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 day | cop |
| 3 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 day | cc |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 lit | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lamps | det |
| 7 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lit | aux:pass |
| 9 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 day | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | glance | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lit | past · passive | the lamps | tree rules |
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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