Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 27
Proudly and boldly he looked up, while the lightning flashed across the sky as if the whole world were in flames.
Who acts: sight, lightning · What happens: look up, flash, be · To what, where: lightning, sky, flames
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 (sight, lightning), 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 | Proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 3 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 looked | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flames | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 flames | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lightning | det |
| 10 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flames | nsubj |
| 11 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lightning | acl |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flashed | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 world | case |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flashed | obl |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 flames | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 flames | case |
| 22 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | sight | boldly, proudly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | flash | participle | the lightning not said here | the sky | as the whole world | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the lightning | flames | tree rules |
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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