Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 247
The spade struck against a hard substance; it was a stone, that shone dazzling white.
Who acts: spade, stone · What happens: strike, be, shine, dazzle · To what, where: hard substance, stone, white
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 (spade, stone), 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 spade | det |
| 2 | spade | spade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 substance | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 substance | det |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 substance | amod |
| 7 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stone | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stone | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stone | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shone | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shone | nsubj |
| 15 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stone | acl:relcl |
| 16 | dazzling | dazzle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 shone | xcomp |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dazzling | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the spade | a hard substance | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against substance=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | spade | a stone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shine | past | a stone | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dazzle | gerund | a stone not said here | white | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus white=Experiencer |
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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