Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 5

It was not quite dark; the northern lights shot forth red and blue flames, like continuous fireworks, and the snow glittered, and reflected back the light, so that the night here was one long twilight.

Who acts: room, northern lights, snow, night · What happens: not be, shoot, glitter, reflect back, be · To what, where: red flames, light, one long twilight

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, northern lights, snow, night), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 dark	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 shot	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lights	det
8	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lights	amod
9	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shot	nsubj
10	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	advcl
11	forth	forth	ADV	_	12 red	advmod
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flames	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blue	cc
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 red	conj
15	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shot	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fireworks	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 fireworks	case
18	continuous	continuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fireworks	amod
19	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shot	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 glittered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 glittered	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 snow	det
23	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glittered	nsubj
24	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reflected	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reflected	cc
27	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 glittered	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 reflected	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 light	det
30	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reflected	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 twilight	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 twilight	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 night	det
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 twilight	nsubj
36	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 night	advmod
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 twilight	cop
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 twilight	nummod
39	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 twilight	amod
40	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reflected	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	room		dark property	tree rules
2	shoot	past	the northern lights	red flames		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme
3	glitter	past	the snow			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reflect back	past	the snow not said here	the light		tree rules
5	is a	past	the night	one long twilight		tree rules

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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