Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 25
Morning dawned, and as the sun rose, the whole city and the king's castle sank suddenly down together.
Who acts: sun, whole city · What happens: dawn, rise, sink
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, whole city), 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 | Morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sank | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sank | cc |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 rose | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sank | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 city | amod |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sank | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 castle | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 castle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 city | conj |
| 18 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dawned | advcl |
| 19 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 down | advmod |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 sank | advmod |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 sank | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sink | past | the whole city and the king's castle | down, together property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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