Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 88
The candles were now lighted--what brightness!
What happens: light, brightness · To what, where: candles
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 candles | det |
| 2 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lighted | aux:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lighted | advmod |
| 5 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 brightness | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 brightness | nsubj |
| 8 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lighted | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past · passive | the candles | now | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | brightness | tree rules |
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. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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