Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 26
And the mighty genius of mankind, swifter than a bird and than an arrow--swifter than anything of earthly origin--carried him out into space, where the heavenly bodies are bound together by the rays that pass from star to star.
Who acts: mighty genius, rays · What happens: carry out, bind, pass · To what, where: star, space, heavenly bodies
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 (mighty genius, rays), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 carried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 genius | det |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 genius | amod |
| 4 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mankind | case |
| 6 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 genius | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swifter | punct |
| 8 | swifter | swifter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 genius | conj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swifter | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 arrow | cc |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 arrow | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 arrow | det |
| 15 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 genius | conj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 swifter | punct |
| 17 | swifter | swifter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrow | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 anything | case |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 swifter | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 origin | case |
| 21 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 origin | amod |
| 22 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 anything | nmod |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 genius | punct |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carried | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 carried | compound:prt |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 space | case |
| 28 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bound | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 bound | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bodies | det |
| 32 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bodies | amod |
| 33 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 bound | aux:pass |
| 35 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 space | acl:relcl |
| 36 | together | together | ADV | _ | 35 bound | advmod |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 rays | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rays | det |
| 39 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 bound | obl |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 pass | nsubj |
| 41 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 rays | acl:relcl |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 star | case |
| 43 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 pass | obl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 star | case |
| 45 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 pass | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | past | the mighty genius of mankind and swifter than a bird and a arrow and swifter than anything | star | space | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | bind | present · passive | the rays | the heavenly bodies | together property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | pass | present | the rays | star | to star | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from star=Initial_Location to star=Destination |
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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