Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 188
I got a light, and in a few moments the red flames leaped up as a beacon to them.
Who acts: I, red flames · What happens: get, leap up · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, red flames), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 light | det |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leaped | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 moments | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moments | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 moments | amod |
| 10 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leaped | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flames | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flames | amod |
| 13 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leaped | nsubj |
| 14 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 leaped | compound:prt |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 beacon | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 beacon | det |
| 18 | beacon | beacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaped | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 beacon | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | a light | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leap up | participle | the red flames | moment | as a beacon to People | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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