Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 104
And each morning the sun's rays shone through the one little window of the grandfather's house upon the quiet child.
Who acts: rays, sun · What happens: shine, ray · To what, where: one little window
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rays, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shone | cc |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shone | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rays | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 7 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shone | nsubj |
| 8 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 window | nummod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 window | amod |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shone | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grandfather | det |
| 16 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 grandfather | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 window | nmod |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 child | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 child | det |
| 21 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 child | amod |
| 22 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shone | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun's rays | the one little window of the grandfather's house | morning | upon the quiet child | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location | ||
| 2 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: 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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