Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 109

The long wicks of the altar lights glimmer red; but there is a redder gleam upon the pavement, where the bishop lies with cloven skull, and his dead warriors around him, in the quiet of the holy Christmas night.

Who acts: long wicks, bishop · What happens: glimmer, be, lie · To what, where: redder gleam

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long wicks, bishop), 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	3 wicks	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wicks	amod
3	wicks	wick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 glimmer	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 lights	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lights	det
6	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lights	compound
7	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wicks	nmod
8	glimmer	glimmer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glimmer	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gleam	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 is	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gleam	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 gleam	det
15	redder	red	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 gleam	amod
16	gleam	gleam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glimmer	parataxis
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 pavement	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pavement	det
19	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gleam	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lies	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 lies	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bishop	det
23	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lies	nsubj
24	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gleam	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 skull	case
26	cloven	cloven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 skull	amod
27	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lies	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 warriors	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 warriors	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 warriors	nmod:poss
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 warriors	amod
32	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gleam	conj
33	around	around	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 warriors	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 quiet	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 quiet	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 quiet	det
38	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gleam	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	43 night	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 night	det
41	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 night	amod
42	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 night	compound
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 quiet	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 glimmer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	glimmer	present	the long wicks of the altar lights		red property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		a redder gleam and bishop's dead warriors around bishop and the quiet of the holy Christmas night	upon the pavement	tree rules
3	lie	present	the bishop		with cloven skull	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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