Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 77

There are my old northern lights," said the reindeer; "see how they flash."

Who acts: old northern lights, lights, my · What happens: be, say, see, flash, light · To what, where: reindeer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old northern lights, lights, my), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lights	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lights	amod
5	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lights	amod
6	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reindeer	det
11	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 flash	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flash	nsubj
17	flash	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	does	present	my old northern lights		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the reindeer		tree rules
3	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	flash	present	lights = light			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	light		my			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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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