Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 70
Over the whole glided the moon through the air, clear, but with a somewhat crooked face.
Who acts: whole · What happens: glide · To what, where: moon, air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole), 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 | Over | over | SCONJ | _ | 4 glided | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whole | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glided | nsubj |
| 4 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glided | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glided | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clear | punct |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 air | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 face | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 face | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 16 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 17 crooked | advmod |
| 17 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 face | amod |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glided | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | past | the whole | the moon | the air | with a crooked face | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent moon=Theme through air=Trajectory |
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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