Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 49

They felt cold; but not far from their resting-place, on a hill, the sun was shining through the trees.

Who acts: oaks, sun · What happens: feel, shine · To what, where: trees

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 (oaks, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 place	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 place	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 place	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 place	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 place	nmod:poss
10	resting	resting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 resting	punct
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hill	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 hill	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hill	det
16	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shining	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shining	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 shining	aux
21	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 felt	advcl
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 trees	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trees	det
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shining	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	oaks = oak					cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	shine	past · progressive	the sun			the trees			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location

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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