Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 171
The sunbeam took it up; the sunbeam carried the jewel from the head of the toad.
Who acts: sunbeam · What happens: take up, carry · To what, where: body, jewel, head
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 (sunbeam), 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 | 2 sunbeam | det |
| 2 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sunbeam | det |
| 8 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | nsubj |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 jewel | det |
| 11 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 toad | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 toad | det |
| 17 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | the sunbeam | body | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the sunbeam | the jewel | the head of the toad | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme from head=Initial_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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