Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 4

He sat down on one of the seats, and lo! the candies were lighted one by one, and there was brightness and grandeur such as he had only seen in the Spanish cathedral.

Who acts: brain, brightness · What happens: sit down, light, be, see · To what, where: candies, Spanish cathedral

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brain, brightness), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sat	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 seats	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seats	det
8	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lighted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lighted	cc
11	lo	lo	INTJ	_	16 lighted	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 lo	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 candies	det
14	candies	candy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lighted	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lighted	aux:pass
16	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 lighted	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 was	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
24	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grandeur	cc
26	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brightness	conj
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	32 seen	mark
28	as	as	ADP	_	27 such	fixed
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seen	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 seen	aux
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 seen	advmod
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 grandeur	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 cathedral	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cathedral	det
35	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cathedral	amod
36	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seen	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	brain			on one of the seats	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location
2	light	past · passive		the candies			tree rules
3	be	past	brightness and grandeur		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past · perfect	brain		the Spanish cathedral		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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