Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 3

The largest of them extended for several miles; they were all lighted up by the vivid light of the aurora, and they were so large and empty, so icy cold and glittering!

Who acts: vivid light, rooms · What happens: light up, be, glitter, light · To what, where: rooms, aurora

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vivid light, rooms), 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	5 extended	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 extended	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 largest	nmod
5	extended	extended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 miles	case
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 miles	amod
8	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 extended	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 lighted	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lighted	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lighted	aux:pass
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 lighted	advmod
13	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 extended	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 lighted	compound:prt
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 light	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
17	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 light	amod
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lighted	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 aurora	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 aurora	det
21	aurora	aurora	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 light	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 large	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 large	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 large	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 large	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 large	advmod
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lighted	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 empty	cc
29	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 large	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cold	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 cold	advmod
32	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cold	amod
33	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 large	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 glittering	cc
35	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 cold	conj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 extended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	light up	past · passive	the vivid light of the aurora	rooms = room	all property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
2	is	past	rooms = room		large property	tree rules
3	be		rooms = room not said here			tree rules
4	be		rooms = room not said here			tree rules
5	glitter	gerund	rooms = room not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	light			the aurora		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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