Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 25
From the book shot forth a ray of light which grew broad and full, like the stem of a tree, from which bright rays spread upward and over the student's head.
Who acts: ray, bright rays · What happens: shoot, grow, spread, ray, stem · To what, where: book, light, tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ray, bright 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 book | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | obl |
| 4 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 shot | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ray | det |
| 7 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ray | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shot | conj |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 full | cc |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 broad | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stem | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 stem | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stem | det |
| 18 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stem | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spread | punct |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 spread | obl |
| 25 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rays | amod |
| 26 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spread | nsubj |
| 27 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | advcl |
| 28 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 27 spread | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 head | cc |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 student | det |
| 32 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 student | case |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 upward | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | the book | forth property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from book=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | a ray of light | broad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread | present | bright rays | upward property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ray | light | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | stem | a tree | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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