Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 124

Then, in the quiet silent night, while the full moon was shining, the Dryad saw a spark fly out of the moon's disc, and fall like a shooting star.

Who acts: full moon, Dryad, spark · What happens: shine, see, fly out, fall · To what, where: spark, disc

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (full moon, Dryad, spark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:1605): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 saw	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 night	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shining	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 shining	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moon	det
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moon	amod
12	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shining	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shining	aux
14	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 saw	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shining	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Dryad	det
17	Dryad	dryad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 spark	det
20	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
21	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 saw	xcomp
22	out	out	ADP	_	27 disc	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 disc	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moon	det
25	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 disc	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 moon	case
27	disc	disc	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fly	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fall	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fall	cc
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fly	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 star	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 star	det
33	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 star	compound
34	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	the full moon				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	the Dryad	a spark	then; night		tree rules
3	fly out	infinitive	a spark not said here	the moon's disc			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disc=Theme
4	fall	infinitive	a spark not said here			like a shooting star	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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