Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 173
The last rays of the setting sun shone upon her, and gleamed over the altar upon the shining clasps of the Bible, which lay open at the words of the prophet Joel, "Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord."
Who acts: last rays, Bible · What happens: shine, gleam, lie, rend, turn, ray · To what, where: altar, words, hearts, setting sun, prophet · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (last rays, Bible), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rays | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rays | amod |
| 3 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shone | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 6 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sun | compound |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rays | nmod |
| 8 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shone | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gleamed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gleamed | cc |
| 13 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 shone | conj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 altar | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 altar | det |
| 16 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gleamed | obl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 clasps | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clasps | det |
| 19 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 clasps | amod |
| 20 | clasps | clasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gleamed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Bible | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Bible | det |
| 23 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 clasps | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lay | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lay | nsubj |
| 26 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Bible | acl:relcl |
| 27 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lay | xcomp |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 words | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 words | det |
| 30 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lay | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 prophet | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 prophet | det |
| 33 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 words | nmod |
| 34 | Joel | Joel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 prophet | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Rend | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Rend | punct |
| 37 | Rend | rend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 lay | conj |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 39 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 Rend | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 garments | cc |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 garments | advmod |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 garments | nmod:poss |
| 43 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 hearts | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 turn | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 turn | cc |
| 46 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 shone | parataxis |
| 47 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 49 Lord | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Lord | det |
| 49 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 turn | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 46 turn | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the last rays of the setting sun | upon Anne | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gleam | participle | the last rays of the setting sun not said here | the altar | upon the shining clasps of the Bible | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over altar=Location | |||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | lie | past | the Bible | the words of the prophet | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at word=Location | |||
| 5 | rend in a quote | infinitive | the Bible not said here | your hearts and your garments | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 6 | turn in a quote | infinitive | unto the Lord | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | ray | the setting sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | word | the prophet | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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