Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 183
The fairy now led the prince into a large, lofty room with transparent walls, through which the light shone.
Who acts: fairy, light · What happens: lead, shine · To what, where: prince, large lofty room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 led | advmod |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 room | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 large | punct |
| 11 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 room | amod |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 walls | case |
| 14 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 walls | amod |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 room | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shone | punct |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 shone | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 light | det |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shone | nsubj |
| 21 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the fairy | the prince | a large lofty room with transparent walls | now | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme into room=Destination | ||
| 2 | shine | past | the light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=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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