Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 54
Sometimes, with a lurid flame, memory would light up a picture of life which had never faded from his heart.
Who acts: flame memory · What happens: light up, not fade · To what, where: picture, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flame memory), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 light | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sometimes | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 flame | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flame | det |
| 5 | lurid | lurid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flame | amod |
| 6 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 memory | compound |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flame | punct |
| 8 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 light | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 light | aux |
| 10 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 light | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 picture | det |
| 13 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 light | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 picture | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 faded | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 faded | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 faded | advmod |
| 19 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 picture | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 faded | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light up | would | flame memory | a picture of life | sometimes property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Product | |||
| 2 | not fade | past · perfect · passive | a picture of life | picture's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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