Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 44
The date and the palm lifted themselves as a screen or as a sun-shade over them.
Who acts: date · What happens: lift · To what, where: date
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 (date), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:6145): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 date | det |
| 2 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 palm | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palm | det |
| 5 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 date | conj |
| 6 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 lifted | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 screen | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 screen | det |
| 10 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 shade | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 shade | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shade | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shade | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sun | punct |
| 16 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 screen | conj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shade | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the date and the palm | date | as a screen or a sun shade over screen | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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