Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 9

My rays could only light up isolated notes, so the greater part of what was written there will ever remain dark to me.

Who acts: rays, greater part, My · What happens: light up, write, remain, ray · To what, where: isolated notes, greater part

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rays, greater part, My), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 rays	nmod:poss
2	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 light	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 light	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 light	advmod
5	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 light	compound:prt
7	isolated	isolated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 notes	amod
8	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 light	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 remain	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	21 remain	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 part	det
12	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 part	amod
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 remain	nsubj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 written	mark
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 written	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 written	aux:pass
17	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 part	acl:relcl
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 written	advmod
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 remain	aux
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 remain	advmod
21	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 light	advcl
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 remain	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 dark	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light up	could	My rays	isolated notes				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Product
2	write	past · passive		the greater part	there			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	remain	future	the greater part			ever	dark property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ray		My					nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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