Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 79
The Lord, in a dream, had been a guide to her feet and a light to her spirit.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: be · To what, where: guide
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord), 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 Lord | det |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 guide | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dream | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dream | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dream | det |
| 6 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lord | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 guide | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 guide | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 guide | det |
| 11 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 guide | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 light | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 light | det |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guide | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 spirit | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 20 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 light | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 guide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | the Lord | a guide and a light to mother's spirit | to mother's feet | tree rules |
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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