Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 59

They shine up into the very clouds at night; when I look up, I can tell in what direction the town lies."

Who acts: splendor, I, town · What happens: shine up, look up, tell, lie · To what, where: clouds, direction · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (splendor, I, town), 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 shine	nsubj
2	shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shine	compound:prt
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 clouds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clouds	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 clouds	advmod
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shine	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shine	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 look	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 look	nsubj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 look	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shine	parataxis
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 direction	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 direction	nsubj
21	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 town	det
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lies	nsubj
24	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 direction	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shine	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 shine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	shine up	present	splendor		the clouds	night	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look up	present	I				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	can	I		direction		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lie	present	the town	direction not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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