Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 32
Number two was a piece of rotten wood, which also shines in the dark.
Who acts: Number, piece · What happens: be, shine · To what, where: piece, dark
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 (Number, piece), 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 | Number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nsubj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Number | nummod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wood | amod |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shines | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 shines | nsubj |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 shines | advmod |
| 12 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dark | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dark | det |
| 15 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shines | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Number | a piece | of rotten wood | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shine | present | a piece | the dark | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location |
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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