Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 41

Then suddenly it appeared as if all the stars were shining with the radiance of the full moon on the many-colored flowers that decked the grave.

Who acts: it, stars, colored flowers, full moon · What happens: appear, shine, color, deck, radiate · To what, where: colored flowers, grave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, stars, colored flowers, full moon), 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	4 appeared	advmod
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 appeared	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 shining	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 shining	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 stars	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stars	det
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shining	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shining	aux
11	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 appeared	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 radiance	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 radiance	det
14	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shining	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 moon	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moon	det
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 moon	amod
18	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 radiance	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	24 flowers	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flowers	det
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 colored	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 many	punct
23	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 flowers	amod
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shining	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 decked	nsubj
26	decked	deck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 flowers	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grave	det
28	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 decked	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	it			then	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shine	past · progressive	all stars		the colored flowers		with the radiance of the full moon	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flower=Location
3	color	participle						vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	deck	past	the colored flowers	the grave				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grave=Destination
5	radiate		the full moon					nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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