Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 11

It was late at night, but as the moon shone through the windows, they had light at a cheap rate.

Who acts: game, windows · What happens: be, shine, have · To what, where: moon, windows, light, cheap rate

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, windows), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moon	det
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
11	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 moon	acl
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 windows	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 windows	det
14	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shone	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moon	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	conj
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 rate	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rate	det
21	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rate	amod
22	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	game			night	late property	tree rules
2	shine	participle		the moon not said here	the windows			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location
3	have	past	windows = window	light	a cheap rate		as the moon	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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