Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 13

Among the strangers was a minstrel from the north, the home of the clouds and the brilliant lights of the aurora borealis.

What happens: be, light · To what, where: minstrel, north, aurora borealis

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 strangers	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 strangers	det
3	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 minstrel	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 minstrel	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 minstrel	det
6	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 north	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 north	det
9	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 minstrel	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 home	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 home	det
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 minstrel	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 clouds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 clouds	det
15	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 home	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lights	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lights	det
18	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lights	amod
19	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clouds	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 borealis	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 borealis	det
22	aurora	aurora	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 borealis	compound
23	borealis	borealis	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lights	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 minstrel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a minstrel		the north		among the strangers	tree rules
2	light			the aurora borealis					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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