Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 95
There not even the light of a torch or lantern could reach it, much less the brightness of the sun or moon. "
Who acts: light · What happens: reach, light · To what, where: paper, torch
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 (light), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 reach | expl |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 light | advmod |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 light | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reach | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 torch | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 torch | det |
| 8 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 light | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 lantern | cc |
| 10 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 torch | conj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 reach | aux |
| 12 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reach | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brightness | punct |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 less | advmod |
| 16 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 brightness | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brightness | det |
| 18 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reach | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sun | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brightness | nmod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 moon | cc |
| 23 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sun | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 reach | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | could | the light of a torch or lantern | paper | there | the brightness of the sun or moon obl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | light | a torch or lantern | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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