Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 85
How we shine; what a light we give!'
Who acts: we · What happens: shine, give · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 shine | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 shine | nsubj |
| 3 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 shine | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 shine | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 shine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | we | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | give | present | we | a light | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
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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