Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 19
It was even darker here, for the sides of the rocks almost met, and the light penetrated only through a small opening at the top.
Who acts: ledge, sides, light · What happens: be, meet, penetrate · To what, where: small opening, top
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ledge, sides, light), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 darker | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 darker | cop |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 darker | advmod |
| 4 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 darker | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 darker | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sides | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sides | det |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 darker | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rocks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rocks | det |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 met | obl |
| 13 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 14 met | advmod |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sides | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 penetrated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 penetrated | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 penetrated | nsubj |
| 19 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 darker | conj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 opening | advmod |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 opening | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 opening | det |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 opening | amod |
| 24 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 penetrated | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 penetrated | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 darker | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ledge | here | for the sides; dark property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the sides not said here | of the rocks; almost property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | penetrate | past | the light | a small opening | the top | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=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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