Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 52
The full moon had already risen, and was shining in all her radiant splendor over the earth, when from the thicket, in the form of a frog, crept poor Helga.
What happens: rise, shine, creep, form · To what, where: full moon, radiant splendor, poor Helga, thicket, frog
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: 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 | 3 moon | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moon | amod |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | aux |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 risen | advmod |
| 6 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shining | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shining | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shining | aux |
| 10 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 risen | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 splendor | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 splendor | det:predet |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 splendor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 splendor | amod |
| 15 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shining | obl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 splendor | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 crept | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 crept | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 thicket | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thicket | det |
| 23 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 crept | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 form | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 form | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 form | det |
| 27 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thicket | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 frog | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 frog | det |
| 30 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 form | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thicket | punct |
| 32 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shining | conj |
| 33 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Helga | amod |
| 34 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 crept | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · perfect · passive | the full moon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shine | past · progressive | mouth's radiant splendor over the earth | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in splendor=Location | |||||
| 3 | creep | past | poor Helga | the thicket | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location helga=Theme | ||||
| 4 | form | a frog | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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