Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 109
The illumination extended even to the most retired of the garden walks, at least not so retired that any one need lose himself there.
Who acts: illumination, one need · What happens: extend, retire, walk, lose · To what, where: need
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (illumination, one need), 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 | 2 illumination | det |
| 2 | illumination | illumination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 extended | nsubj |
| 3 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 walks | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 12 walks | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 walks | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 retired | advmod |
| 8 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 walks | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 retired | obl |
| 12 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 extended | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 retired | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 least | case |
| 15 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 retired | obl |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 retired | advmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 retired | advmod |
| 18 | retired | retired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 walks | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 lose | mark |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 need | det |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 need | nummod |
| 22 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lose | nsubj |
| 23 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 retired | advcl |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 lose | obj |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 lose | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 extended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | past | the illumination | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | retire | participle | of the garden | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk | present | the illumination not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lose | present | any one need | need | there | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality |
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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