Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 14
The little bird starts, and flies away, the sunbeam gradually vanishes, and again there is darkness in the room and in the heart of that bad man.
Who acts: little bird, sunbeam, darkness · What happens: start, fly away, vanish, be · To what, where: room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bird, sunbeam, darkness), 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 bird | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bird | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starts | nsubj |
| 4 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flies | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flies | cc |
| 7 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 starts | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 flies | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 vanishes | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sunbeam | det |
| 11 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vanishes | nsubj |
| 12 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 13 vanishes | advmod |
| 13 | vanishes | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 flies | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 is | cc |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 is | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 starts | conj |
| 19 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 heart | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heart | det |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 room | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 man | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 man | det |
| 29 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heart | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | the little bird | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fly away | present | the little bird not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vanish | present | the sunbeam | gradually property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | present | darkness | the room and the heart of that bad man; there | again | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=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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