Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 15

It vanished again, and dark clouds flew past: but still it was a greeting, a friendly good-night offered to me by the Moon.

Who acts: beam, dark clouds · What happens: vanish, fly, be, offer · To what, where: greeting, friendly good night, me

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 (beam, dark clouds), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vanished	nsubj
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 vanished	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clouds	amod
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 vanished	conj
9	past	past	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 greeting	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 greeting	cc
12	still	still	ADV	_	16 greeting	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 greeting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 greeting	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 greeting	det
16	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 night	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 night	det
19	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 night	amod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 night	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 greeting	appos
23	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 night	acl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 offered	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 Moon	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Moon	det
28	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 offered	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	beam			again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	past	dark clouds				past property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	beam	a greeting		still		tree rules
4	offer	participle		a friendly good night not said here	me		by the Moon	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to i=Goal

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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