Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 10
In, fact, it was the MOON that looked in upon me.
Who acts: fact, MOON · What happens: be, look · To what, where: MOON, fact
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, MOON), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fact | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fact | punct |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 MOON | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fact | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 MOON | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 MOON | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 MOON | det |
| 8 | MOON | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 MOON | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 MOON | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fact | the MOON | fact | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | the MOON | in me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in i=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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