Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 20
The long and beautiful day had been so full of joy and sweet delights, that when the sun sank low it felt tired of all its happiness and enjoyment.
Who acts: long day, sun · What happens: be, sink, feel · To what, where: sweet delights
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long day, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 beautiful | cc |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 long | conj |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 full | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 full | advmod |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 delights | cc |
| 13 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 delights | amod |
| 14 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 joy | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sank | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sank | obj |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 sank | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sun | det |
| 19 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sank | nsubj |
| 20 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 delights | acl:relcl |
| 21 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 felt | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sank | advcl |
| 24 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 felt | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 happiness | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 happiness | det:predet |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 28 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tired | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 enjoyment | cc |
| 30 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 happiness | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the long day | of joy and sweet delights; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | the sun | sweet delights | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | sun | low, tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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