Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 16

The northern-lights shone with such precision that one could tell exactly when they were at their highest or lowest degree of brightness.

Who acts: one, lights · What happens: shine, tell, be · To what, where: northern lights, such precision, highest degree · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lights	det
2	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lights	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 northern	punct
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lights	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 precision	case
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 precision	amod
8	precision	precision	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shone	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 tell	mark
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 precision	acl
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	22 degree	advmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 degree	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 degree	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 degree	cop
17	at	at	ADP	_	22 degree	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 degree	nmod:poss
19	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 degree	amod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 lowest	cc
21	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 highest	conj
22	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 brightness	case
24	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 degree	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lights	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	participle		the northern lights not said here		with such precision	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with precision=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	could	one	such precision not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent precision=Recipient
3	is	past	lights = light		lights's highest degree	of brightness; exactly property	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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