Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 240
Then her father observed that a dazzling flame gleamed from the white page on which the shining dust had passed from her hand.
Who acts: father · What happens: observe, gleam, shine, pass · To what, where: dazzling flame, white page, shining dust
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | 4 observed | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 observed | nsubj |
| 4 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 flame | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flame | det |
| 7 | dazzling | dazzling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flame | compound |
| 8 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 observed | ccomp |
| 9 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 flame | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 page | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 page | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 page | amod |
| 13 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gleamed | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 passed | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dust | det |
| 17 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 dust | amod |
| 18 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 passed | aux |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 page | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | plenty's father | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gleam | participle | a dazzling flame not said here | the white page | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | pass | past · perfect · passive | the shining dust | the white page | from plenty's hand | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from hand=Initial_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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