Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 5
It shone redder, clearer through the dark trees, when the sun went down.
Who acts: sunshine, sun · What happens: shine, go down
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunshine, sun), 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 | 2 shone | nsubj |
| 2 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | redder | red | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 shone | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clearer | punct |
| 5 | clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 redder | conj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trees | amod |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clearer | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 went | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shone | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | sunshine | red property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | the sun | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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