Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 41
The storks might have been found in the land of Egypt, where the sun's rays shone forth bright and warm, as it does here at midsummer.
Who acts: rays, sun · What happens: find, shine, do, ray · To what, where: storks, land, midsummer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rays, sun), 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 storks | det |
| 2 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 found | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Egypt | case |
| 11 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 land | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shone | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 shone | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rays | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 sun | case |
| 17 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shone | nsubj |
| 18 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Egypt | acl:relcl |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 bright | advmod |
| 20 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shone | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 warm | cc |
| 22 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bright | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 does | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 does | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 does | nsubj |
| 26 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | parataxis |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 does | advmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 midsummer | case |
| 29 | midsummer | midsummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 does | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | might · perfect · passive | the storks | the land of Egypt | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shine | past | the sun's rays | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present | sun | midsummer; here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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