Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 160
At length they reached the warm countries, where the sun shines brightly, and the sky seems so much higher above the earth.
Who acts: heads, sun, sky · What happens: reach, shine, seem · To what, where: warm countries, length
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, sun, sky), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 countries | det |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 countries | amod |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shines | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 shines | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shines | nsubj |
| 12 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 countries | acl:relcl |
| 13 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 12 shines | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seems | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seems | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seems | nsubj |
| 18 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 higher | advmod |
| 21 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 seems | xcomp |
| 22 | above | above | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 earth | det |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 higher | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | heads = head | the warm countries | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent country=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | shine | present | the sun | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | present | the sky | high property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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