Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 7
The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low in the heavens, from every part of the castle.
Who acts: games, northern lights · What happens: see, rise, flame · To what, where: flickering flame, heavens
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 (games, northern lights), 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 | 3 flame | det |
| 2 | flickering | flickering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flame | amod |
| 3 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lights | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lights | det |
| 6 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lights | amod |
| 7 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flame | nmod |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 11 seen | advmod |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rose | punct |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 rose | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rose | nsubj |
| 15 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | parataxis |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rose | xcomp |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 low | cc |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 high | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 heavens | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heavens | det |
| 21 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rose | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 part | punct |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 part | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 part | det |
| 25 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 castle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 castle | det |
| 28 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 part | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could · passive | the flickering flame of the northern lights | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | games = game | the heavens | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heaven=Location | |||
| 3 | flame | the northern lights | nom flame «process 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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