Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 25
But my rays lingered longest about the Nile group with the colossal god.
Who acts: rays, my · What happens: linger, ray · To what, where: longest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rays, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 lingered | cc |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 rays | nmod:poss |
| 3 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lingered | nsubj |
| 4 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 lingered | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 group | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 group | det |
| 8 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 group | compound |
| 9 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lingered | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 god | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 god | det |
| 12 | colossal | colossal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 god | amod |
| 13 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lingered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lingered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | linger | participle | my rays | longest | about the Nile group; with the colossal god | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ray | my | nom ray «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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