Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 7
A ray of the setting sun shoots into the bare cells of one of the captives, for God's sun shines upon the evil and the good.
Who acts: ray, sun · What happens: shoot, shine, ray · To what, where: bare cells, evil, setting sun
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 (ray, sun), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ray | det |
| 2 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shoots | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 5 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | compound |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ray | nmod |
| 7 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 cells | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cells | det |
| 10 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cells | amod |
| 11 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shoots | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 cells | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 captives | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 captives | det |
| 16 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shines | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 shines | mark |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sun | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 God | case |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shines | nsubj |
| 22 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shoots | conj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 evil | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 evil | det |
| 25 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shines | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 good | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 good | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 evil | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shoots | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | present | a ray of the setting sun | the bare cells of one of the captives | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into cell=Destination | ||||
| 2 | shine | present | God's sun | the evil | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon evil=Location | ||||
| 3 | ray | the setting sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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