Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 101

Now lanterns shed their radiance abroad; now the gas had the upper hand; suddenly a rocket rises!

Who acts: lanterns, gas, rocket · What happens: shed, have, rise, radiate · To what, where: radiance, upper hand

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lanterns, gas, rocket), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 shed	advmod
2	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shed	nsubj
3	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 radiance	nmod:poss
5	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shed	obj
6	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	3 shed	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 had	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gas	det
10	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shed	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hand	det
13	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hand	amod
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 rises	punct
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 rises	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rocket	det
18	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rises	nsubj
19	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shed	conj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 shed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shed	past	lanterns	lanterns's radiance	now	abroad property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location radiance=Source
2	have	past	the gas	the upper hand	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	rise	present	a rocket			suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	radiate		lanterns = lantern				nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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