--- title: The sun's light wants eight minutes and some seconds to perform a jo… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The sun's light wants eight minutes and some seconds to perform a journey of more than twenty million of our Danish [*] miles; borne by electricity, the soul wants even some minutes less to accomplish the same flight. Who acts: light, soul, sun. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, soul, sun), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:6:96 # text = The sun's light wants eight minutes and some seconds to perform a journey of more than twenty million of our Danish [*] miles; borne by electricity, the soul wants even some minutes less to accomplish the same flight. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 perform perform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 19 advmod _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 compound _ _ 19 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 21 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 22 Danish danish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 23 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 * * PUNCT NFP _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 borne bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 35 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 37 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 34 advmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 accomplish accomplish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | the sun's light | | | | minute | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **perform** | to-infinitive | the sun's light *not said here* | a journey of twenty million of our Danish miles | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | | 3 | **bear** | participle | the sun's light *not said here* | | | | | by electricity | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **want** | present | the soul | | | | | less *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **accomplish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the soul *not said here* | the same flight | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Eventuality | | 6 | **light** | | the sun | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. 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