Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 81
Again the day of battle dawned; the sun had not yet risen, but it was morning.
Who acts: sun · What happens: dawn, not rise, be · To what, where: sun, morning
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 (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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 6 dawned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 battle | case |
| 5 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 6 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 risen | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 risen | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 risen | advmod |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 risen | advmod |
| 13 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dawned | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 morning | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 morning | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 morning | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 morning | cop |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 risen | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | again; day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not rise | past · perfect · passive | the sun | yet | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | sun | morning | tree rules |
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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