Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 24

The stars gleamed in the heavens, and it seemed as if long golden threads hung down from them to the earth.

Who acts: stars, long golden threads · What happens: gleam, seem, hang down · To what, where: stars, heavens

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, long golden threads), 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	2 stars	det
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seemed	nsubj
3	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stars	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 heavens	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heavens	det
6	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gleamed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seemed	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 hung	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 hung	mark
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 threads	amod
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 threads	amod
15	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hung	nsubj
16	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seemed	xcomp
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 hung	compound:prt
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hung	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 earth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 earth	det
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hung	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gleam	participle		the stars not said here	the heavens		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location
2	seem	past	the stars				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	hang down a condition, not said to happen	participle	long golden threads			from heavens = heaven; to the earth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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