Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 10
Flash, flash, went the beautiful blue northern lights in the air the whole night long.
Who acts: Flash · What happens: go · To what, where: beautiful blue northern lights, air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flash), 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 | Flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flash | punct |
| 3 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flash | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Flash | punct |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lights | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lights | amod |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lights | amod |
| 9 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lights | amod |
| 10 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 night | amod |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 long | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 went | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Flash and flash | the beautiful blue northern lights | the air | long property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme |
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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