Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 58

Then a bright falling star came down, leaving a broad, luminous streak behind it.

Who acts: bright falling star · What happens: fall, come down, leave · To what, where: broad luminous streak, star

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright falling star), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 star	amod
4	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 star	amod
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leaving	punct
9	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 streak	det
11	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 streak	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 broad	punct
13	luminous	luminous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 streak	amod
14	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaving	obj
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 streak	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come down	past	a bright falling star			then	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	gerund	a bright falling star not said here	a broad luminous streak	star			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent streak=Theme behind it=Location

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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