Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 30
The first was a herring's head, which could emit light in the darkness.
Who acts: first, head · What happens: be, emit · To what, where: head, light, darkness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, head), 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 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 head | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 head | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 herring | det |
| 5 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 herring | case |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 emit | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 emit | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 emit | aux |
| 11 | emit | emit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 head | acl:relcl |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 emit | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 darkness | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 darkness | det |
| 15 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 emit | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 head | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the first | a herring's head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | emit | could | a herring's head | light | the darkness | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source light=Theme |
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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