Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 67

The moon shone bright, a mist was over the meadow, making it look like a great lake; and, indeed, it was once so, as the legend tells--and in the moonlight the eye realizes these myths.

Who acts: moon, mist, meadow, legend, eye · What happens: shine, be, make, look, tell, realize · To what, where: meadow, myths, moonlight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (moon, mist, meadow, legend), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shone	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meadow	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mist	det
7	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meadow	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 meadow	cop
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 meadow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meadow	det
11	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 making	punct
13	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shone	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 making	obj
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 making	xcomp
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 lake	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lake	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lake	amod
19	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 tells	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tells	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 and	punct
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	28 so	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 so	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 so	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 so	cop
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 so	advmod
28	so	so	ADV	_	33 tells	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tells	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 tells	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 legend	det
32	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tells	nsubj
33	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	parataxis
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 realizes	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 realizes	cc
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 moonlight	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 moonlight	det
38	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 realizes	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 eye	det
40	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 realizes	nsubj
41	realizes	realize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 tells	conj
42	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 myths	det
43	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 realizes	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the moon			bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a mist		the meadow		tree rules
3	make	gerund	the moon not said here	meadow			tree rules
4	look	infinitive	meadow not said here			like a great lake	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	past	meadow			indeed, once, so property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	present	the legend				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	realize	present	the eye	this myths	the moonlight		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myth=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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