Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 14
The evening twilight faded and my light shone doubly vivid upon the rich velvet that covered the throne of France.
Who acts: evening twilight, light, rich velvet, my · What happens: fade, shine, cover, light · To what, where: throne
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening twilight, light, rich velvet, my), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 twilight | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twilight | compound |
| 3 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faded | nsubj |
| 4 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shone | cc |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 light | nmod:poss |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shone | nsubj |
| 8 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 faded | conj |
| 9 | doubly | doubly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 vivid | advmod |
| 10 | vivid | vivid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shone | xcomp |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 velvet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 velvet | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 velvet | amod |
| 14 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vivid | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 covered | nsubj |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 velvet | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 throne | det |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 France | case |
| 20 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 throne | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 faded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | past | the evening twilight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | shine | past | my light | vivid property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cover | past | the rich velvet | the throne of France | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throne=Destination | ||||
| 4 | light | my | nom light «phenomenon 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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