Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 134
In these northern regions, a beech-wood often buds in a single night and appears in the morning sunlight in its full glory of youthful green.
Who acts: sunlight · What happens: appear, glory · To what, where: morning sunlight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunlight), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 regions | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 regions | det |
| 3 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 regions | amod |
| 4 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wood | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 7 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wood | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 beech | punct |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 regions | conj |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 buds | advmod |
| 11 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 regions | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 night | amod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buds | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 appears | cc |
| 17 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 night | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sunlight | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sunlight | det |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sunlight | compound |
| 21 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appears | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 glory | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 glory | nmod:poss |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 glory | amod |
| 25 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sunlight | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 green | case |
| 27 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 green | amod |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 glory | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 regions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the morning sunlight in sunlight's full glory of youthful green | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location | |||||
| 2 | glory | sunlight | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=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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