Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 49
The tin soldier could already see daylight shining where the arch ended.
Who acts: tin soldier, daylight, arch · What happens: see, shine, end · To what, where: daylight
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 (tin soldier, daylight, arch), 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 soldier | det |
| 2 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soldier | compound |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 daylight | acl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 ended | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 arch | det |
| 11 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ended | nsubj |
| 12 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shining | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | the tin soldier | daylight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | daylight not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | end | past | the arch | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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