Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 77
An overpowering light streamed in upon her, the child had vanished, and she was being borne upwards.
Who acts: overpowering light · What happens: overpower, stream, vanish, bear · To what, where: overpowering light, mother
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 (overpowering 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 light | det |
| 2 | overpowering | overpower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 light | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vanished | nsubj |
| 4 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 light | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 streamed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 light | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vanished | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 vanished | aux |
| 12 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 borne | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 borne | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 borne | aux:pass |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 borne | aux:pass |
| 18 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 vanished | conj |
| 19 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 18 borne | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overpower | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stream | participle | a overpowering light not said here | in mother | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in she=Location | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past · perfect | a overpowering light | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bear | past · passive | mother | upwards property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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