Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 7
She came down to the stream, and set the lamp upon the water, and let it float away.
Who acts: thought, lamp · What happens: come down, set, let, float away · To what, where: stream, lamp, water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, lamp), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 stream | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stream | det |
| 6 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lamp | det |
| 11 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 float | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | thought | the stream | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | thought not said here | the lamp | the water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme upon water=Destination | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | thought not said here | lamp | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | float away | infinitive | lamp not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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