Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 104

Ddsa!” was again heard in the air; the most charming blue lights burned the whole night in the sky, and at last they came to Finland.

Who acts: charming blue lights, lights · What happens: hear, burn, come · To what, where: Ddsa, air, sky, Finland, last

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (charming blue lights, lights), 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	Ddsa	Ddsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj:pass
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ddsa	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ddsa	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux:pass
5	again	again	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 burned	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lights	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 charming	advmod
13	charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lights	amod
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lights	amod
15	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 burned	nsubj
16	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 night	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 night	amod
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burned	obl:unmarked
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 came	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 burned	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Finland	case
30	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past · passive		Ddsa		the air	again	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	burn in a quote	past	the charming blue lights			the sky	night	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location
3	come in a quote	past	lights = light		Finland	last		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to finland=Initial_Location

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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