Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 1
"Last night"--I am quoting the Moon's own words--"last night I was gliding through the cloudless Indian sky.
Who acts: I, Moon · What happens: quote, glide, word · To what, where: own words, last night, cloudless Indian sky · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 2 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quoting | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 quoting | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 quoting | aux |
| 8 | quoting | quote | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 words | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Moon | case |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quoting | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 night | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 night | punct |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 night | amod |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 words | appos |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 gliding | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gliding | aux |
| 20 | gliding | glide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 night | acl:relcl |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 sky | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sky | det |
| 23 | cloudless | cloudless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sky | amod |
| 24 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sky | amod |
| 25 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gliding | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 quoting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | present · progressive | I | the Moon's own words | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | glide in a quote | past · progressive | I | last night not said here | the cloudless Indian sky | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent night=Theme through sky=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | word | the Moon | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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