Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 126
The new time flings sunshine into the room.
Who acts: new time · What happens: fling · To what, where: sunshine, room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new time), 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 | 3 time | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flings | nsubj |
| 4 | flings | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flings | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flings | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | present | the new time | sunshine | the room | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sunshine=Theme into room=Destination |
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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