Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 3
The night is splendid in the gleam of the Northern Lights, and in the glitter of innumerable twinkling stars.
Who acts: night · What happens: be · To what, where: gleam
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night), 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 | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 splendid | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 splendid | cop |
| 4 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 gleam | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gleam | det |
| 7 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 splendid | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Lights | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lights | det |
| 10 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Lights | amod |
| 11 | Lights | Light | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 gleam | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glitter | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glitter | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 glitter | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 glitter | det |
| 16 | glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 splendid | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stars | case |
| 18 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stars | amod |
| 19 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stars | compound |
| 20 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glitter | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 splendid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the night | the gleam of the Northern Lights | splendid 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: «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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