Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 19
In calm weather the sun could be seen, looking like a purple flower, with the light streaming from the calyx.
Who acts: light · What happens: see, look, stream · To what, where: sun, calm weather, calyx
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 weather | case |
| 2 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weather | amod |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 seen | advcl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 flower | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flower | det |
| 13 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flower | amod |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 light | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 light | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 19 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 light | acl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 calyx | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 calyx | det |
| 22 | calyx | calyx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 streaming | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could · passive | the sun | calm weather | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | like a purple flower; with the light | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stream | gerund | the light not said here | the calyx | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from calyx=Source |
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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