Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 106
Brilliant lamps hung in festoons from tree to tree; and paper lanterns, through which the light shone till they looked like transparent tulips.
Who acts: Brilliant lamps, lamps · What happens: hang, shine, look · To what, where: Brilliant lamps, festoons
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brilliant lamps, lamps), 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 | Brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lamps | amod |
| 2 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lamps | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 festoons | case |
| 5 | festoons | festoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hung | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 lanterns | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lanterns | cc |
| 12 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lanterns | compound |
| 13 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lamps | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shone | punct |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 shone | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shone | nsubj |
| 19 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 looked | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shone | advcl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 tulips | case |
| 24 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tulips | amod |
| 25 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 looked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | participle | Brilliant lamps and paper lanterns not said here | festoons | from tree to tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in festoon=Location | |||
| 2 | shine | past | Brilliant lamps and paper lanterns | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Location | |||||
| 3 | look | past | lamps = lamp | like transparent tulips | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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