Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 46
The sunbeam flies in a few minutes along the immeasurable path from the sun to us.
Who acts: sunbeam · What happens: fly · To what, where: us, immeasurable path
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunbeam), 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 sunbeam | det |
| 2 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flies | nsubj |
| 3 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 minutes | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 minutes | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 minutes | amod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flies | obl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 path | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 path | det |
| 10 | immeasurable | immeasurable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 path | amod |
| 11 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flies | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 sun | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 path | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 flies | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | the sunbeam | us | the immeasurable path from the sun | minute | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=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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