Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 61

After a while, a flash of lightning seemed to pass through him, and then the daylight approached, and a voice cried out, "I declare here is the tin soldier."

Who acts: flash, daylight, voice, lightning · What happens: seem, pass, approach, cry out, declare, be · To what, where: tin soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (flash, daylight, voice, lightning), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 while	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flash	det
6	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 lightning	case
8	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flash	nmod
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 soldier	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pass	mark
11	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	xcomp
12	through	through	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pass	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 approached	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 approached	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 approached	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 daylight	det
18	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 approached	nsubj
19	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seemed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cried	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 voice	det
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cried	nsubj
24	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 seemed	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 cried	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 declare	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 declare	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 declare	nsubj
29	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 cried	conj
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 declare	advmod
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 soldier	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 soldier	det
33	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 soldier	compound
34	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 soldier	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 soldier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	a flash of lightning			while		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	pass	to-infinitive	a flash of lightning not said here				through flash	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through he=Location
3	approach	past	the daylight			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry out speech: express	participle	a voice					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	declare speech: other in a quote	present	a voice = voice		here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present		the tin soldier				tree rules
7	flash		lightning					nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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