Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 93
The light of the flames fell directly on the face and breast of the Snow Man with a ruddy gleam. "
Who acts: light · What happens: fall, light · To what, where: face, flames
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 flames | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flames | det |
| 5 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 light | nmod |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 6 fell | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 breast | cc |
| 12 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Man | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Man | det |
| 15 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Man | compound |
| 16 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 breast | nmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 gleam | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 gleam | det |
| 19 | ruddy | ruddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gleam | amod |
| 20 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 gleam | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 gleam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the light of the flames | the face and breast of the Snow Man | with a ruddy gleam; directly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location | |||
| 2 | light | the flames | 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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