Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 71
Then he struck a light, and in a moment the dog, with eyes as big as teacups, stood before him.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: strike, stand · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | 3 struck | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dog | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dog | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dog | compound |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 struck | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 big | advmod |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 teacups | case |
| 19 | teacups | teacup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 big | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | conj |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stood | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | soldier | a light | then | with eyes; the moment dog obl | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent light=Patient with eye=Instrument | ||
| 2 | stand | past | soldier not said here | before soldier | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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