Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 71
When the sun was near setting, and the evening's twilight about to commence, the approaching transformation aroused her to fresh exertion.
Who acts: sun, approaching transformation · What happens: be, commence, approach, arouse · To what, where: setting, flock
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 (sun, approaching transformation), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 setting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 setting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 setting | cop |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 setting | case |
| 6 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twilight | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 twilight | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 twilight | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 evening | case |
| 12 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 setting | parataxis |
| 13 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 15 commence | mark |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 commence | mark |
| 15 | commence | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 twilight | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 aroused | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 transformation | det |
| 18 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 transformation | amod |
| 19 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 aroused | nsubj |
| 20 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 setting | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 aroused | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 exertion | case |
| 23 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 exertion | amod |
| 24 | exertion | exertion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 aroused | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 setting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | setting | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | commence | to-infinitive | the sun not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | approach | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | arouse | past | the approaching transformation | flock | to fresh exertion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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