Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 145
The two eldest had filled the castle with joyfulness, and now the last brightness was going away.
Who acts: last brightness · What happens: fill, go away · To what, where: two eldest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last brightness), 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 | 3 eldest | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eldest | nummod |
| 3 | eldest | eldest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | aux |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 joyfulness | case |
| 9 | joyfulness | joyfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 castle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 going | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 going | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brightness | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brightness | amod |
| 15 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 filled | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 going | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · perfect · passive | the two eldest | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go away | past · progressive | the last brightness | now | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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