Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 13

The largest was many miles in extent; all were lighted up by the powerful Aurora Borealis, and all were so large, so empty, so icy cold, and so resplendent!

Who acts: powerful Aurora, all · What happens: be, light up · To what, where: largest many miles, extent

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful Aurora, all), 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	5 miles	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 miles	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 miles	cop
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 miles	amod
5	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lighted	nsubj:pass
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 extent	case
7	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 miles	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 lighted	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 lighted	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lighted	aux:pass
11	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 lighted	compound:prt
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 Aurora	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Aurora	det
15	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Aurora	amod
16	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lighted	obl:agent
17	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Aurora	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 large	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 large	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 large	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 large	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 large	advmod
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lighted	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 empty	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 empty	advmod
26	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 large	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cold	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 cold	advmod
29	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cold	amod
30	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 large	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 resplendent	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 resplendent	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 resplendent	advmod
34	resplendent	resplendent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 large	conj
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the largest many miles	extent		tree rules
2	light up	past · passive	the powerful Aurora	the largest many miles			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
3	is	past	all			large property	tree rules
4	be		all not said here				tree rules
5	be		all not said here				tree rules
6	be		all not said here				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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