Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 42
My rays followed her till the morning dawn kissed her brow."
Who acts: rays, morning dawn, My · What happens: follow, kiss, ray · To what, where: last, brow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rays, morning dawn, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 rays | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 kissed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dawn | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dawn | compound |
| 8 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | nsubj |
| 9 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | My rays | last | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | the morning dawn | last's brow | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ray | My | nom ray «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/98/42/