Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 23
In a flash of lightning heaven opens, and we can look in; but the sight will strike even human beings blind.
Who acts: we, sight, lightning heaven · What happens: open, look in, strike, flash · To what, where: flash, human beings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, sight, lightning heaven), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 flash | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flash | det |
| 3 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opens | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heaven | case |
| 5 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heaven | compound |
| 6 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flash | nmod |
| 7 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 look | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 look | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 opens | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 look | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 strike | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 strike | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sight | det |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strike | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 strike | aux |
| 19 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 opens | conj |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 beings | advmod |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beings | amod |
| 22 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 strike | obj |
| 23 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 strike | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | a flash of lightning heaven | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flash=Location | |||||
| 2 | look in | can | we | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | strike | future | the sight | human beings | blind property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent being=Patient | |||
| 4 | flash | lightning heaven | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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