Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 46

Suddenly was heard the sound of drums and fifes; the bright blaze of a fire shot up from time to time, and its ruddy gleams seemed to contend with the bluish light of the torches.

Who acts: bright blaze, ruddy gleams, fire · What happens: hear, shoot up, seem, contend, blaze, light · To what, where: sound, torches

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 (bright blaze, ruddy gleams, fire), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux:pass
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 drums	case
7	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sound	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fifes	cc
9	fifes	fife	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drums	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 shot	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 blaze	det
12	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blaze	amod
13	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shot	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blaze	nmod
17	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	parataxis
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 shot	compound:prt
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 time	case
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shot	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 time	case
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seemed	cc
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 gleams	nmod:poss
26	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gleams	amod
27	gleams	gleam	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shot	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 contend	mark
30	contend	contend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 seemed	xcomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 light	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 light	det
33	bluish	bluish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 light	amod
34	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 contend	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 torches	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 torches	det
37	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 light	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		the sound of drums and fifes		suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: sound=Stimulus
2	shoot up	past	the bright blaze of a fire		time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	blaze's ruddy gleams				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	contend	to-infinitive	blaze's ruddy gleams not said here			with the bluish light of the torches	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with light=Co-Agent
5	blaze		a fire				nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent
6	light			the torches			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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