Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 90
The wedding-day was fixed, and, on the evening before, the whole city was illuminated.
What happens: fix, illuminate · To what, where: wedding day, whole city
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 wedding | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fixed | aux:pass |
| 6 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 illuminated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 illuminated | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 evening | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 evening | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 illuminated | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 evening | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 evening | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 city | amod |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 illuminated | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 19 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fixed | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · passive | the wedding day | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | illuminate | past · passive | the whole city | evening | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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