Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 13
And, as I looked dreamily towards the clouds, the sky became bright.
Who acts: I, sky · What happens: look, become
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 (I, sky), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dreamily | dreamily | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 clouds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clouds | det |
| 9 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sky | det |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | I | towards the clouds; dreamily property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards cloud=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the sky | bright property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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