Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 170
But the spark that had shot forth from her eyes; what became of that?
Who acts: spark · What happens: shoot, become · To what, where: spark, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spark), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 became | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spark | det |
| 3 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shot | aux |
| 6 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spark | acl:relcl |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 shot | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shot | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 became | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past · perfect · passive | the spark | spark's eyes | forth property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from eye=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | become | past | the spark | of that | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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