Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 61
Now the sun is setting, and the night, the dark night, is approaching.
Who acts: sun · What happens: set, approach
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 setting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 setting | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 setting | aux |
| 5 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 approaching | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 night | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 night | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 setting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 night | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 night | amod |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 night | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 setting | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 approaching | aux |
| 16 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 approaching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · progressive | the sun | now; night | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | approach | present · progressive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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