Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 47
The light streamed forth from thousands of lamps, and the rockets shot upwards towards the sky, filling the air with showers of colored fiery sparks.
Who acts: light · What happens: stream, shoot, fill, color · To what, where: light, thousands, sky, air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 light | acl |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 streamed | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 thousands | case |
| 6 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 streamed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lamps | case |
| 8 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thousands | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shot | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shot | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rockets | det |
| 12 | rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shot | nsubj |
| 13 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 13 shot | advmod |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shot | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filling | punct |
| 19 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 shot | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 air | det |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filling | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 showers | case |
| 23 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 filling | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sparks | case |
| 25 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 sparks | amod |
| 26 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sparks | amod |
| 27 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 showers | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | participle | the light not said here | thousands of lamps | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from thousand=Source | |||
| 2 | shoot | past | the light | the sky | upwards property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent towards sky=Destination | |||
| 3 | fill | gerund | the light not said here | the air | with showers of colored fiery sparks | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with shower=Instrument | |||
| 4 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: 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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