Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 36
The heavens were lighted up with continual flashes, and peal after peal of thunder rolled.
Who acts: thunder · What happens: light up, roll, peal · To what, where: heavens, peal
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (thunder), 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 heavens | det |
| 2 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lighted | aux:pass |
| 4 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 lighted | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 flashes | case |
| 7 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flashes | amod |
| 8 | flashes | flash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lighted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rolled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rolled | cc |
| 11 | peal | peal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 peal | case |
| 13 | peal | peal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peal | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 thunder | case |
| 15 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peal | nmod |
| 16 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lighted | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light up | past · passive | the heavens | with continual flashes | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product with flash=Material | ||||
| 2 | roll | participle · passive | peal after peal of thunder | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 3 | peal | thunder | nom peal «event intransitive»: of=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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