The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 122
It was night, the sky was sparkling with stars, and the earth was covered with a heavy dew.
Who acts: feeling, sky · What happens: be, sparkle, cover · To what, where: night, earth
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 night | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 night | cop |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sparkling | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sparkling | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sparkling | aux |
| 8 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 stars | case |
| 10 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sparkling | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 covered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 covered | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 covered | aux:pass |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sparkling | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 dew | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dew | det |
| 19 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dew | amod |
| 20 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sparkling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | feeling | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | past · progressive | the sky | with stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with star=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cover | past · passive | the earth | with a heavy dew | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dew=Theme |
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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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/pg540/40/122/