Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 2

His rays tremble on the white wall, as if he wished to write down on it what he can tell, what he has seen there and elsewhere during thousands of years in our rolling world.

Who acts: rays, he, His · What happens: tremble, wish, write down, tell, see, roll · To what, where: white wall, wall, rolling world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rays, he, His), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 rays	nmod:poss
2	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tremble	nsubj
3	tremble	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wall	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wall	amod
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tremble	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wished	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 wished	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 wished	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wished	nsubj
12	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tremble	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 write	mark
14	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wished	xcomp
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 write	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 write	obl
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 tell	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	aux
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 write	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seen	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 seen	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seen	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 wished	advcl
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 seen	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 elsewhere	cc
29	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	27 there	conj
30	during	during	ADP	_	31 thousands	case
31	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seen	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 years	case
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 thousands	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 world	case
35	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 world	nmod:poss
36	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 world	amod
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seen	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tremble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	tremble	present	His rays	the white wall		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location
2	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	he			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	write down not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	wall		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	can	he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
5	see	present · perfect	he	our rolling world; there	during thousands of years	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	roll	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ray		His = he			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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