Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 131
He flew into a tree, and beat his black wings as long as he could see the carriage, that shone from afar like a sunbeam.
Who acts: Raven, carriage · What happens: fly, beat, see, shine · To what, where: tree, black wings, carriage, afar
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raven, carriage), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beat | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beat | cc |
| 8 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wings | amod |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beat | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 beat | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 long | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 carriage | det |
| 19 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shone | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 shone | nsubj |
| 22 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 carriage | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 afar | case |
| 24 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shone | obl |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 sunbeam | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sunbeam | det |
| 27 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 afar | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Raven | into a tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result | ||||
| 2 | beat | past | Raven not said here | Raven's black wings | long property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | could | Raven | the carriage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carriage=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shine | past | the carriage | afar like a sunbeam | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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