Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 54
The clouds sunk as the evening drew on, and it became dark.
Who acts: clouds, evening, pair · What happens: sunk, draw on, become
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, evening, pair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 clouds | det |
| 2 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sunk | nsubj |
| 3 | sunk | sunk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 drew | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 evening | det |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | nsubj |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sunk | ccomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 drew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drew | conj |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sunk | present | the clouds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | draw on | past | the evening | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | become | past | pair | dark property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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