Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 39
The sun had not risen when she came in sight of the prince's palace, and approached the beautiful marble steps, but the moon shone clear and bright.
Who acts: sun, moon · What happens: not rise, come, approach, shine, sight · To what, where: sight, beautiful marble steps, palace
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, moon), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 risen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 risen | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 risen | advmod |
| 5 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 came | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 risen | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 prince | case |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 approached | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 approached | cc |
| 18 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 risen | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 steps | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 steps | amod |
| 21 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 steps | compound |
| 22 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 approached | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shone | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 shone | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moon | det |
| 26 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shone | nsubj |
| 27 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 approached | conj |
| 28 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shone | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bright | cc |
| 30 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 clear | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rise | past · perfect | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | sun | sight of the prince's palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 3 | approach | past | the beautiful marble steps | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shine | past | the moon | clear property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sight | the prince's palace | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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