Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 3
My rays glided through the grating into the roomy vaults, where kings sleep tranquilly in great stone coffins.
Who acts: rays, kings, My · What happens: glide, sleep, coffin, ray · To what, where: grating, great stone
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth 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, kings, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 rays | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glided | nsubj |
| 3 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 grating | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grating | det |
| 6 | grating | grating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glided | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 vaults | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vaults | det |
| 9 | roomy | roomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vaults | compound |
| 10 | vaults | vault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glided | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sleep | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 sleep | advmod |
| 13 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sleep | nsubj |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 vaults | conj |
| 15 | tranquilly | tranquilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sleep | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 stone | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stone | amod |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coffins | obl |
| 19 | coffins | coffin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sleep | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | participle | My rays | the grating | into the roomy vaults | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through grating=Source into vault=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sleep | present | kings | tranquilly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | coffin | present | kings not said here | great stone | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | 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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