Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 23
This he would place over his head, and fancy that he was in the beech-wood while the sun shone, and the birds carolled gayly.
Who acts: boy, sun · What happens: be, shine, caroll · To what, where: beech wood, birds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 place | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 place | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 place | aux |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 place | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fancy | cc |
| 10 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 place | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 wood | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wood | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wood | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 16 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wood | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 beech | punct |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fancy | nmod |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 shone | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shone | nsubj |
| 22 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wood | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 birds | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 birds | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 birds | det |
| 26 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 place | conj |
| 27 | carolled | caroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 birds | acl |
| 28 | gayly | gayly | ADV | _ | 27 carolled | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy | the beech wood | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | past | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | caroll | participle | the birds not said here | gayly property | 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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