Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 97
The church is lighted up; the gleaming radiance shines through the window-frames, and pours out over meadow and heath.
Who acts: gleaming radiance · What happens: light up, gleam, shine, pour out · To what, where: church, window frames, meadow
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 (gleaming radiance), 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 church | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lighted | aux:pass |
| 4 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 lighted | compound:prt |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 shines | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 radiance | det |
| 8 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 radiance | amod |
| 9 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shines | nsubj |
| 10 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lighted | parataxis |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 frames | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 frames | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frames | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 window | punct |
| 15 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shines | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pours | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pours | cc |
| 18 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shines | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 pours | compound:prt |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 meadow | case |
| 21 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pours | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 heath | cc |
| 23 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meadow | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light up | present · passive | the church | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | shine | present | the gleaming radiance | the window frames | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through frame=Location | ||||
| 4 | pour out | present | the gleaming radiance not said here | meadow and heath | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=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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