Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 6
The sun took away even what was left of it, and he saw nothing of it till the evening, after sunset.
Who acts: sun, man · What happens: take away, leave, see · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, man), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 what | advmod |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nothing | nmod |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 evening | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 evening | det |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sunset | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 sunset | case |
| 23 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | the sun | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | of sun | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of it=Destination | |||||
| 3 | see | past | man | nothing | evening; sunset | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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