Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 113

Such meteorous appearances are to be explained in this way--that they are the reflections of the Aurora Borealis, and it is highly probable they are caused principally by electricity.”

Who acts: rooms, appearance, electricity · What happens: explain, be, cause · To what, where: Such meteorous appearances, way, reflections, rooms

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rooms, appearance, electricity), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 appearances	amod
2	meteorous	meteorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 appearances	amod
3	appearances	appearance	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 explained	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 explained	aux:pass
5	to	to	PART	_	7 explained	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 explained	aux:pass
7	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 explained	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 reflections	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 reflections	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reflections	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 reflections	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reflections	det
16	reflections	reflection	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 explained	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Borealis	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Borealis	det
19	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Borealis	compound
20	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 reflections	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 probable	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 probable	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 probable	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 probable	cop
25	highly	highly	ADV	_	26 probable	advmod
26	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 explained	conj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 caused	nsubj:pass
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 caused	aux:pass
29	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 probable	acl:relcl
30	principally	principally	ADV	_	29 caused	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 electricity	case
32	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 caused	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 explained	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present · passive		Such meteorous appearances	this way		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is a	present	rooms = room	the reflections		of the Aurora Borealis	tree rules
3	is	present	appearance			highly, probable property	tree rules
4	cause	present · passive	electricity	rooms = room		principally property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient

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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