Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 3

The sun shone brightly into the church, and its radiance fell on the polished brass chandelier and on the little ship that hung from the vaulted roof.

Who acts: sun, radiance, little ship · What happens: shine, fall, polish, hang, vault, radiate · To what, where: church, polished brass chandelier, vaulted roof

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, radiance, little ship), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 church	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 church	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 radiance	nmod:poss
11	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	17 chandelier	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chandelier	det
15	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 chandelier	amod
16	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chandelier	compound
17	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ship	cc
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 ship	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ship	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ship	amod
22	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chandelier	conj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ship	acl:relcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 roof	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roof	det
27	vaulted	vault	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 roof	amod
28	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun	the church	brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	sun's radiance	the polished brass chandelier and the little ship		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on chandelier=Location
3	polish	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	hang	past	the little ship	the vaulted roof		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	vault	participle				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	radiate		sun			nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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