Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 10
To-morrow the sun will shine, or the rain descend.
Who acts: sun, rain · What happens: shine, descend
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, rain), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shine | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shine | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 shine | aux |
| 7 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 descend | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 descend | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rain | det |
| 11 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 descend | nsubj |
| 12 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shine | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | future | the sun | to morrow | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | descend | infinitive | the rain | vn meander-47.7-1 «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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