Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 23
The magnetic sparks come to it,--but how?
Who acts: magnetic sparks · What happens: come · To what, where: iron
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magnetic sparks), 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 sparks | det |
| 2 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sparks | amod |
| 3 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 how | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 how | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 come | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the magnetic sparks | iron | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_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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