Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 58
The walls and floors of porcelain glittered in the light of a thousand lamps.
What happens: glitter, light · To what, where: porcelain, light, thousand lamps
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 walls | det |
| 2 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 floors | cc |
| 4 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 walls | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 porcelain | case |
| 6 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floors | nmod |
| 7 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 porcelain | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 light | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 light | det |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glittered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lamps | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thousand | det |
| 13 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 lamps | nummod |
| 14 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 light | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | participle | porcelain not said here | the light of thousand lamps | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | ||||
| 2 | light | thousand lamps | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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