Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 15
Still the sun has shone into that heart, and the twittering of the bird has touched it.
Who acts: you · What happens: still, shine, touch · To what, where: sun, heart, twittering
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 (you), 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 | Still | still | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shone | aux |
| 5 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Still | ccomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shone | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 touched | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 twittering | det |
| 12 | twittering | twittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 twittering | nmod |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 touched | aux |
| 17 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shone | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 touched | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | still | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shine | present · perfect · passive | the sun | that heart | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | touch | present · perfect · passive | the twittering of the bird | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer it=Result |
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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