Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 88
And on Christmas morning the sun arose and shone upon the ears of corn, which were quickly surrounded by a number of twittering birds.
Who acts: sun, number · What happens: arise, shine, surround, twitter · To what, where: ears, corn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, number), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 arose | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | compound |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | nsubj |
| 7 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shone | cc |
| 9 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arose | conj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 ears | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ears | det |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shone | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 corn | case |
| 14 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ears | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 surrounded | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 19 surrounded | advmod |
| 19 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 corn | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 number | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 number | det |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 surrounded | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 birds | case |
| 24 | twittering | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 birds | amod | |
| 25 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 number | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the sun | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shine | past | the sun not said here | the ears of corn | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ear=Location | ||||
| 3 | surround | past · passive | a number of twittering birds | corn | quickly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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