Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 139

As darkness came on, towards evening, the great towns looked charming; lights were sparkling, now seen now hidden, just as the sparks go out one after another on a piece of burnt paper.

Who acts: great towns, lights, sparks · What happens: come on, look, charm, sparkle, see, hide · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great towns, lights, sparks), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 darkness	case
2	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 evening	punct
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 evening	case
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 towns	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 towns	amod
11	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
13	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 looked	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sparkling	punct
15	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sparkling	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sparkling	aux
17	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 seen	advmod
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 sparkling	conj
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 hidden	advmod
22	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 seen	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
24	just	just	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sparks	det
27	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 go	nsubj
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sparkling	parataxis
29	out	out	ADV	_	30 one	advmod
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 go	obl
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 another	case
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 one	nmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 piece	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 piece	det
35	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 one	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 paper	case
37	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 paper	amod
38	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 piece	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come on	past			evening	as darkness	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	the great towns				tree rules
3	charm	gerund	the great towns not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	sparkle	past · progressive	lights				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	participle	lights not said here		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	hide	participle	lights not said here		now		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go out	present	the sparks	one after another on a piece of burnt paper			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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