Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 158

In the purple air gleamed the bright Star, and its beams fell upon him and upon the marble Psyche.

Who acts: beams, past · What happens: gleam, fall, beam · To what, where: bright Star, purple air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beams, past), 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	_	4 air	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
3	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 air	amod
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gleamed	obl
5	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Star	det
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Star	amod
8	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gleamed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beams	nmod:poss
12	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gleamed	parataxis
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 marble	cc
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 marble	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 marble	det
19	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	conj
20	Psyche	Psyche	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 marble	appos
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gleamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gleam	past		the bright Star	the purple air		tree rules
2	fall	past	past's beams			upon air	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
3	beam		past				nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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