Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 107
The place was so brilliantly lighted that it seemed like sunshine, and glorious music rolled through the building.
Who acts: it · What happens: light, seem, roll · To what, where: place, glorious music, building
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lighted | aux |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 lighted | advmod |
| 5 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 6 lighted | advmod |
| 6 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lighted | ccomp |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 sunshine | case |
| 11 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rolled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rolled | cc |
| 14 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 music | amod |
| 15 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lighted | advcl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 building | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 building | det |
| 19 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rolled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past · passive | the place | brilliantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | like sunshine | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roll | participle · passive | glorious music | the building | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme through building=Trajectory |
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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