Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 5

My rays pierced through the grated window towards the wall; the prisoner was scratching a few lines upon it, as a parting token; but he did not write words, but a melody, the outpouring of his heart.

Who acts: rays, prisoner, My · What happens: pierce, grate, scratch, not write, ray · To what, where: melody, few lines, wall, words

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first 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, prisoner, 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 pierced	nsubj
3	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
6	grated	grate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 window	amod
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pierced	obl
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 scratching	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prisoner	det
13	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scratching	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 scratching	aux
15	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pierced	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lines	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lines	amod
18	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 scratching	obj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lines	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 token	punct
22	as	as	ADP	_	25 token	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 token	det
24	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 token	compound
25	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scratching	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 write	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 write	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 write	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 write	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 write	advmod
31	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pierced	conj
32	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 write	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 melody	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 melody	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 melody	det
36	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pierced	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 outpouring	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 outpouring	det
39	outpouring	outpouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 melody	appos
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 heart	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 heart	nmod:poss
42	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 outpouring	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pierced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pierce	participle	My rays	a melody		through the grated window towards the wall	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through window=Patient
2	grate	participle					vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	scratch	past · progressive	the prisoner	a few lines	wall	as a parting token	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent line=Patient upon it=Location
4	not write	past · do-support	prisoner	words			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	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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