Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 1
Heavy clouds obscured the sky, and the Moon did not make his appearance at all.
Who acts: Heavy clouds, Moon · What happens: obscure, not make · To what, where: sky, appearance, all
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heavy clouds, 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 | Heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clouds | amod |
| 2 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 obscured | nsubj |
| 3 | obscured | obscure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sky | det |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obscured | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moon | det |
| 9 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 make | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 make | advmod |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obscured | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 make | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obscured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obscure | past | Heavy clouds | the sky | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sky=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not make | past · do-support | the Moon | Moon's appearance | all | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product |
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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