Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 91
The sunlight shining into thy inmost soul proves the origin from which thou hast really sprung, and has restored the body to its natural form.
Who acts: sunlight · What happens: shine, prove, spring, restore, form · To what, where: inmost soul, origin, thou, body, natural form
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunlight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sunlight | det |
| 2 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proves | nsubj |
| 3 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 sunlight | acl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 soul | case |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 soul | nmod:poss |
| 6 | inmost | inmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 soul | amod |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shining | obl |
| 8 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 origin | det |
| 10 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proves | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sprung | obl |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sprung | aux |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 sprung | advmod |
| 16 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 origin | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 restored | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 restored | cc |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 restored | aux |
| 20 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 proves | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 body | det |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 restored | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 form | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 form | nmod:poss |
| 25 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 form | amod |
| 26 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 restored | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 proves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | the sunlight not said here | thy inmost soul | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prove | present | the sunlight | the origin | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spring | present · perfect · passive | thou | the origin | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | restore | present · perfect | the sunlight not said here | the body | sunlight's natural form | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent body=Theme to form=Recipient | |||
| 5 | form | sunlight | nom form «communication 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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