Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 4
Soon the Sunbeam pierced its way through the snow to the root, and within the root there was a stirring.
Who acts: Sunbeam, stirring · What happens: pierce, be · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunbeam, stirring), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 pierced | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sunbeam | det |
| 3 | Sunbeam | Sunbeam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pierced | nsubj |
| 4 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pierced | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 snow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 snow | det |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pierced | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 root | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 root | det |
| 12 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pierced | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 was | cc |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 17 root | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 root | det |
| 17 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | obl |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pierced | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stirring | det |
| 21 | stirring | stirring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | past | the Sunbeam | Sunbeam's way | to the root; through the snow; soon property | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Instrument through snow=Patient | |||
| 2 | be | past | a stirring | there | within the root | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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