Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 7

When Romeo climbed the balcony, and the promise of true love fluttered like a cherub toward heaven, the round Moon hung, half hidden among the dark cypresses, in the lucid air.

Who acts: Romeo, round Moon · What happens: climb, flutter, hang, hide, promise · To what, where: balcony, true love, lucid air

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 (Romeo, round 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 climbed	advmod
2	Romeo	Romeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 balcony	det
5	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 promise	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 promise	det
9	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 love	case
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 love	amod
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promise	nmod
13	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 love	acl
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 cherub	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cherub	det
16	cherub	cherub	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fluttered	obl
17	toward	toward	ADP	_	18 heaven	case
18	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cherub	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hung	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Moon	det
21	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Moon	amod
22	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 hung	nsubj
23	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 promise	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hidden	punct
25	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 hidden	advmod
26	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hung	conj
27	among	among	ADP	_	30 cypresses	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cypresses	det
29	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cypresses	amod
30	cypresses	cypress	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hidden	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 air	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 air	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
34	lucid	lucid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 air	amod
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hidden	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	Romeo	the balcony			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location balcony=Theme
2	flutter	participle		true love not said here		like a cherub toward heaven	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hang	past	the round Moon				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hide	participle	the round Moon not said here		the lucid air	among the dark cypresses; half property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among cypress=Location
5	promise			true love			nom promise «communication transitive»: of=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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