Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 15

Then he saw just in front of him the great doorway of a cathedral; the lights were gleaming in the dark aisles, and the fragrance of incense was wafted towards him.

Who acts: Jurgen, lights · What happens: see, gleam, waft · To what, where: great doorway, front, dark aisles, fragrance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, lights), 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	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 front	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 front	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doorway	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 doorway	amod
11	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cathedral	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cathedral	det
14	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doorway	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 gleaming	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lights	det
17	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gleaming	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gleaming	aux
19	gleaming	gleam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 aisles	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 aisles	det
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 aisles	amod
23	aisles	aisle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gleaming	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wafted	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wafted	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fragrance	det
27	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wafted	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 incense	case
29	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fragrance	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wafted	aux:pass
31	wafted	waft	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	conj
32	towards	towards	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wafted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Jurgen	the great doorway of a cathedral	front of sun	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doorway=Stimulus
2	gleam	past · progressive	the lights		the dark aisles			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in aisle=Location
3	waft	past · passive		the fragrance of incense			towards Jurgen	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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