Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 160
One spring day the sun shone brightly, and he was guiding the plough across his field.
Who acts: sun · What happens: shine, guide · To what, where: plough, field
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | compound |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shone | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shone | nsubj |
| 6 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 6 shone | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guiding | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 guiding | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 guiding | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 guiding | aux |
| 12 | guiding | guide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 shone | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 plough | det |
| 14 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 guiding | obj |
| 15 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 field | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 field | nmod:poss |
| 17 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 guiding | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | day | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | guide | past · progressive | sun | the plough | sun's field | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plough=Theme across field=Destination |
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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