Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 97

Here were two natures, changing inwardly and outwardly with the absence and return of sunlight.

Who acts: sunlight · What happens: be, change, return · To what, where: two natures

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (sunlight), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 natures	cop
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 natures	nummod
4	natures	nature	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Here	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 changing	punct
6	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 natures	conj
7	inwardly	inwardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 changing	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 outwardly	cc
9	outwardly	outwardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 inwardly	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 absence	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 absence	det
12	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changing	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 return	cc
14	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 absence	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sunlight	case
16	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 return	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		two natures		tree rules
2	change	gerund			with the absence and return of sunlight; inwardly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	return		sunlight			nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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