Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 9
The crown-shaped Northern Light burned fiercely in the sky.
Who acts: shaped Northern Light · What happens: shape, burn · To what, where: sky
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shaped Northern Light), 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 | 6 Light | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaped | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 crown | punct |
| 4 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Light | amod |
| 5 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Light | amod |
| 6 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 burned | nsubj |
| 7 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 7 burned | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sky | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burned | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | burn | past | the shaped Northern Light | the sky | fiercely property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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