Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 23
A shooting star lit up the sky, and the boy's thoughts passed in a second from the vapours of the earth up to the shining meteor.
Who acts: shooting star, boy · What happens: lit up, pass up, shine, think · To what, where: sky, vapours
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 (shooting star, boy), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | compound |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 star | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 lit | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lit | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 passed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 boy | case |
| 13 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 passed | nsubj |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 second | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 second | det |
| 17 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passed | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 vapours | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vapours | det |
| 20 | vapours | vapour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 passed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earth | det |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vapours | nmod |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 passed | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 meteor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 meteor | det |
| 27 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 meteor | amod |
| 28 | meteor | meteor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit up | participle | a shooting star not said here | the sky | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass up | past | a shooting star | the vapours of the earth | second | to the shining meteor | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from vapour=Initial_Location to meteor=Destination | ||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | think | the boy | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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