Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 62
Yet I may perhaps see the round sun once more before he disappears beneath the horizon.
Who acts: I, sun · What happens: see, disappear · To what, where: round sun
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 (I, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 see | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sun | amod |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 see | advmod |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 disappears | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 disappears | nsubj |
| 13 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | advcl |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 16 horizon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horizon | det |
| 16 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disappears | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | may | I | the round sun | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | disappear | present | sun | beneath the horizon | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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