Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 91
In the evening the moon rose, large and round, and the hayricks in the meadows smelt sweetly. "
Who acts: moon, hayricks · What happens: rise, smelt
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, hayricks), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 large | punct |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 round | cc |
| 10 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 large | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 smelt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smelt | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hayricks | det |
| 14 | hayricks | hayrick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 smelt | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 meadows | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 meadows | det |
| 17 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hayricks | nmod |
| 18 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 19 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 18 smelt | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the moon | evening | large property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | smelt | present | the hayricks in the meadows | sweetly property | tree rules |
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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