Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 71
And there came a bluish dazzling flash of lightning, a lighting up as if of the sun itself, which could burst blocks of rock asunder.
Who acts: bluish dazzling flash, lighting, lightning · What happens: come, burst, flash · To what, where: blocks
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 (bluish dazzling flash, lighting, lightning), 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:pg27200:1556): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flash | det |
| 5 | bluish | bluish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flash | amod |
| 6 | dazzling | dazzling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flash | amod |
| 7 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lightning | case |
| 9 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flash | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lighting | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lighting | det |
| 12 | lighting | lighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flash | appos |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 lighting | compound:prt |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 sun | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sun | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lighting | nmod |
| 19 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 sun | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 burst | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 burst | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 burst | aux |
| 23 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lighting | acl:relcl |
| 24 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 burst | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rock | case |
| 26 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blocks | nmod |
| 27 | asunder | asunder | ADV | _ | 23 burst | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a bluish dazzling flash of lightning | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burst | could | a lighting of the sun flash | blocks of rock | asunder property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location block=Theme | |||
| 3 | flash | lightning | nom flash «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: 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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