Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 127
The Christmas-tree was lighted in the room; presents were there, and good-humor reigned.
Who acts: presents, good humor · What happens: light, be, reign · To what, where: Christmas tree, room
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (presents, good humor), 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 tree | det |
| 2 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Christmas | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lighted | aux:pass |
| 6 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lighted | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 11 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 there | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 there | cop |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lighted | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reigned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reigned | cc |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 humor | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 18 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reigned | nsubj |
| 19 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lighted | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past · passive | the Christmas tree | the room | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | presents | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reign | participle | good humor | 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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