Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 96
The sun's light wants eight minutes and some seconds to perform a journey of more than twenty million of our Danish [*] miles; borne by electricity, the soul wants even some minutes less to accomplish the same flight.
Who acts: light, soul, sun · What happens: want, perform, bear, accomplish, light · To what, where: journey, same flight
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, soul, sun), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 light | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sun | case |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wants | nsubj |
| 5 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wants | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seconds | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 seconds | det |
| 10 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 minutes | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 perform | mark |
| 12 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wants | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 journey | det |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 perform | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 million | case |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 19 million | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 more | fixed |
| 18 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 million | compound |
| 19 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 journey | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 miles | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 miles | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 miles | amod |
| 23 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 26 miles | punct |
| 24 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 26 miles | punct |
| 25 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 26 miles | punct |
| 26 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 million | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 borne | punct |
| 28 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wants | conj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 electricity | case |
| 30 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 borne | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wants | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 soul | det |
| 33 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 wants | nsubj |
| 34 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wants | parataxis |
| 35 | even | even | ADV | _ | 37 minutes | advmod |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 minutes | det |
| 37 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 less | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 wants | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 accomplish | mark |
| 40 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wants | xcomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 flight | det |
| 42 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 flight | amod |
| 43 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 accomplish | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | the sun's light | minute | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | perform | to-infinitive | the sun's light not said here | a journey of twenty million of our Danish miles | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | the sun's light not said here | by electricity | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | want | present | the soul | less property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | accomplish not said to happen | to-infinitive | the soul not said here | the same flight | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | light | the sun | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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