Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 10
So Tuk ran over quickly and helped her; but when he came back again into the room it was quite dark, and as to a light, there was no thought of such a thing.
Who acts: Tuk, boy, room, thought · What happens: run over, help, come back, be, think · To what, where: woman, room, thing
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuk, boy, room, thought), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | Tuk | Tuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 quickly | advmod |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 helped | cc |
| 7 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 helped | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 dark | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 dark | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dark | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dark | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dark | cop |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 dark | advmod |
| 22 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 was | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 was | cc |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 28 light | case |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 as | fixed |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 light | det |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 was | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 light | punct |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 was | expl |
| 31 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 thought | det |
| 33 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 was | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 thing | case |
| 35 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 thing | det:predet |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 thing | det |
| 37 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 thought | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run over | past | Tuk | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | past | Tuk not said here | woman | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | boy | the room | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | room | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | past | no thought of such thing | there | as a light | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | think | such thing | nom thought «cognition 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: «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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