Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 15
One evening he was lying in bed, but the curtains were not yet drawn close, and the light streamed in upon him; he had taken his book into bed with him, for he wanted to finish reading the story of Solon.
Who acts: truth, light · What happens: lie, not draw, stream, take, want, finish · To what, where: bed, curtains, book, story
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truth, light), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drawn | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 drawn | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 curtains | det |
| 11 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drawn | aux:pass |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 drawn | advmod |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 drawn | advmod |
| 15 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lying | advcl |
| 16 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 drawn | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 streamed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 streamed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 light | det |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 streamed | nsubj |
| 21 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 drawn | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 streamed | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 taken | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 taken | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 taken | aux |
| 28 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 drawn | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 book | nmod:poss |
| 30 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 taken | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 bed | case |
| 32 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 taken | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bed | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 wanted | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 wanted | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 wanted | nsubj |
| 38 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 taken | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 finish | mark |
| 40 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 wanted | xcomp |
| 41 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 finish | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 story | det |
| 43 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 reading | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Solon | case |
| 45 | Solon | Solon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 story | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | truth | bed | evening | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 2 | not draw | past · passive | the curtains | yet | close property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | stream | participle | the light | in truth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in he=Location | ||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect | truth | truth's book | bed with light | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme into bed=Destination | |||
| 5 | want | past | truth | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | finish not said to happen | to-infinitive | truth not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | read | gerund | truth not said here | the story of Solon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
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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