Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 8
The hardened criminal casts an impatient look at the bright ray.
Who acts: hardened criminal · What happens: harden, cast · To what, where: impatient look, bright ray
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 (hardened criminal), 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 criminal | det |
| 2 | hardened | harden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 criminal | amod |
| 3 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 casts | nsubj |
| 4 | casts | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 look | det |
| 6 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 look | amod |
| 7 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 casts | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 ray | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ray | det |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ray | amod |
| 11 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 casts | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 casts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harden | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | cast | present | the hardened criminal | a impatient look | the bright ray | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent look=Theme at ray=Destination |
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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