Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 2
The sky painted itself red, the first sunbeam pierced through the clouds, and in the clear flood of sunlight the frog became changed.
Who acts: sky, sunlight · What happens: paint, pierce, change, flood · To what, where: sky, first sunbeam, frog, clear flood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sky | det |
| 2 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | nsubj |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 painted | obj |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 painted | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sunbeam | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sunbeam | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 sunbeam | amod |
| 9 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | obl |
| 10 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sunbeam | acl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 clouds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clouds | det |
| 13 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pierced | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 changed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 changed | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 flood | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flood | det |
| 18 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flood | amod |
| 19 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 changed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sunlight | case |
| 21 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flood | nmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 frog | det |
| 23 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 changed | nsubj |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 changed | aux:pass |
| 25 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 painted | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | the sky | sky | the first sunbeam obl; red property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Destination | |||
| 2 | pierce | participle | the first sunbeam not said here | through the clouds | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through cloud=Patient | ||||
| 3 | change | past · passive | the frog | the clear flood of sunlight | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | flood | sunlight | nom flood «phenomenon 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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