Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 39
Suddenly the boat shot under a bridge which formed a part of a drain, and then it was as dark as the tin soldier's box.
Who acts: boat, bridge · What happens: shoot, form, be · To what, where: bridge, part
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, bridge), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 shot | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | nsubj |
| 4 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 bridge | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bridge | det |
| 7 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 formed | nsubj |
| 9 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 formed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 drain | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 drain | det |
| 14 | drain | drain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dark | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dark | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 dark | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dark | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dark | cop |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 dark | advmod |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shot | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 box | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 soldier | det |
| 24 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 soldier | compound |
| 25 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 box | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 soldier | case |
| 27 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dark | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | the boat | a bridge | suddenly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent under bridge=Destination | |||
| 2 | form | past | a bridge | a part of a drain | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | boat | then | as the tin soldier's box; dark property | tree rules |
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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