Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 160

But the East Wind answered not a word, only pointed forwards to a lovely blue light which gleamed in the distance.

Who acts: East Wind, lovely blue light · What happens: not answer, gleam · To what, where: word

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 (East Wind, lovely blue light), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wind	det
3	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Wind	compound
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 answered	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forwards	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 forwards	advmod
11	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forwards	amod
12	forwards	forward	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 word	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 light	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 light	det
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forwards	nmod
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 gleamed	nsubj
19	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 light	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 distance	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 distance	det
22	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gleamed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past	the East Wind	a word pointed forwards to a lovely blue light					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
2	gleam	past	a lovely blue light					in the distance	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=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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