Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 71

Then he could see that the bright colors were faded from his uniform, but whether they had been washed off during his journey or from the effects of his sorrow, no one could say.

Who acts: boy, one · What happens: see, fade, wash off, say, journey, effect · To what, where: bright colors, uniform, colors, sorrow · 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 (boy, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 see	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 faded	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 colors	det
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 colors	amod
8	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 faded	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 faded	aux:pass
10	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 see	ccomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 uniform	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 uniform	nmod:poss
13	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 faded	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 say	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 say	cc
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	20 washed	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 washed	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 washed	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 washed	aux:pass
20	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 say	advcl
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 washed	compound:prt
22	during	during	ADP	_	24 journey	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 journey	nmod:poss
24	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 washed	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 effects	cc
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 effects	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 effects	det
28	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 journey	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sorrow	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sorrow	nmod:poss
31	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 effects	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 washed	punct
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 say	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 say	aux
36	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	could	boy			then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fade	past · passive		the bright colors	boy's uniform		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	wash off	past · perfect · passive		colors = color		during boy's journey or the effects of boy's sorrow	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	say speech: assert	could	no one				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	journey		boy				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	effect			boy's sorrow			nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
7	sorrow		boy				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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