Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 70
And she drew the curtains close round the little bed, so that the sun might not shine in their eyes.
Who acts: Ida, curtains, sun · What happens: draw, close, not shine · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ida, curtains, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 drew | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 curtains | det |
| 5 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 close | nsubj |
| 6 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | ccomp |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bed | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bed | amod |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shine | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 shine | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shine | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 shine | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 shine | advmod |
| 18 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 close | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shine | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Ida | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | close | present | the curtains | round the little bed | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not shine | might | the sun | curtains's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location |
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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