Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 17

The lights in the valley grew brighter and brighter, and more numerous, and he could see them moving to and fro, and then he understood that there must be a village in the distance; so he exerted his failing strength to reach it, and at length obtained shelter in a humble lodging.

Who acts: lights, light, village · What happens: grow, see, move, fro, understand, be · To what, where: feet, failing strength, strength · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lights, light, village), 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 lights	det
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grew	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 valley	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 valley	det
5	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lights	nmod
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 grew	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brighter	cc
9	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 brighter	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 numerous	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 numerous	cc
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 numerous	advmod
13	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 numerous	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 see	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 moving	fixed
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fro	cc
23	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 see	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 understood	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 understood	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 understood	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 understood	nsubj
28	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 be	mark
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 be	expl
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 be	aux
32	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 understood	ccomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 village	det
34	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 be	nsubj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 distance	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 distance	det
37	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 village	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 exerted	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	41 exerted	advmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 exerted	nsubj
41	exerted	exert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 strength	nmod:poss
43	failing	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 strength	amod
44	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 exerted	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 reach	mark
46	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 exerted	advcl
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 reach	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 length	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 length	cc
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 length	case
51	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	parataxis
52	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 shelter	amod
53	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 length	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	57 lodging	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 lodging	det
56	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 lodging	amod
57	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 length	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the lights in the valley				bright property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	could	light	feet = foot				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	move	gerund	light not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	fro	infinitive	light not said here					tree rules
5	understand	past	light			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	be	must	a village in the distance		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	exert	past	light	light's failing strength				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
8	fail	gerund						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	reach	to-infinitive	light not said here	strength				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	obtain	participle						vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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