Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 9
It took its direction towards the body in a straight line; and a few seconds after, life began to show itself in the man.
Who acts: It, life · What happens: take, begin, show · To what, where: direction, straight line, body
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (It, life), 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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 direction | nmod:poss |
| 4 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 body | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 body | det |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 line | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 line | det |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 line | amod |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 after | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 seconds | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seconds | amod |
| 16 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 after | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | after | after | ADV | _ | 20 began | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 after | punct |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 show | mark |
| 22 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 show | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 show | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | body's direction | a straight line | towards the body | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent direction=Value in line=Location | ||
| 2 | begin | past | life | after property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | life not said here | body | in the man | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Patient in man=Topic |
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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