Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 97
He now hit upon a half-open door, through a chink of which a faint light shone.
Who acts: shop, faint light · What happens: hit, shine · To what, where: chink
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shop, faint light), 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 | 3 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hit | advmod |
| 3 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 open | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 half | punct |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 door | amod |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hit | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chink | punct |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 chink | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chink | det |
| 13 | chink | chink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hit | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 shone | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 17 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 light | amod |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shone | nsubj |
| 19 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chink | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | shop | a chink | now | upon a open door | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | shine | past | a faint light | of a chink | 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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