Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 174

They shone like glow-worms; they already began to hop, and increased in size every moment, so that before a quarter of an hour had elapsed, each of them looked just as large as his father or his uncle.

Who acts: Wisps, each · What happens: shine, begin, hop, increase, elapse, look · To what, where: size

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wisps, each), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shone	nsubj
2	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 worms	case
4	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worms	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 glow	punct
6	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shone	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
9	already	already	ADV	_	10 began	advmod
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shone	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hop	mark
12	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 increased	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 increased	cc
15	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 began	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 size	case
17	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 increased	obl
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 increased	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 elapsed	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 elapsed	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 elapsed	mark
23	before	before	ADP	_	25 quarter	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 quarter	det
25	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 elapsed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 hour	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hour	det
28	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 quarter	nmod
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 elapsed	aux
30	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 increased	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 looked	punct
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 looked	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 each	nmod
35	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
36	just	just	ADV	_	38 large	advmod
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 large	advmod
38	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 looked	xcomp
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 father	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 father	nmod:poss
41	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 large	obl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 uncle	cc
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 uncle	nmod:poss
44	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 father	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	Wisps = wisp			like glow worms	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	Wisps = wisp				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hop	to-infinitive	Wisps = wisp not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	increase	participle		size	moment		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	elapse	past · perfect			before a quarter of a hour		tree rules
6	look	past	each			large property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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