Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 95
After the sun has set, they disappear within the white snow on the mountain-tops, and slumber there till sunrise, when they again come forth.
Who acts: Alps · What happens: set, disappear, come · To what, where: sun, mountain tops
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 (Alps), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 set | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 disappear | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 disappear | nsubj |
| 8 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 snow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 snow | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 snow | amod |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disappear | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 tops | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tops | det |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tops | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mountain | punct |
| 17 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 disappear | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 there | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 there | cc |
| 20 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 there | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 disappear | conj |
| 22 | till | till | ADP | _ | 23 sunrise | case |
| 23 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 there | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 come | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 come | nsubj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 disappear | conj |
| 29 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 disappear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · perfect · passive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | disappear | present | Alps = alp | the mountain tops | within the white snow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | present | Alps = alp | again | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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