Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 122
Incense floated through the lofty painted and gilded aisles, where a solemn twilight reigned.
Who acts: solemn twilight · What happens: float, paint, gild, reign · To what, where: Incense, lofty painted aisles
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 (solemn twilight), 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 | Incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Incense | acl |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 aisles | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 aisles | det |
| 5 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 aisles | amod |
| 6 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 aisles | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gilded | cc |
| 8 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 painted | conj |
| 9 | aisles | aisle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 floated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reigned | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 reigned | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 twilight | det |
| 13 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 twilight | amod |
| 14 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reigned | nsubj |
| 15 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 aisles | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Incense | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | participle | Incense not said here | the lofty painted aisles | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through aisle=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | reign | participle | a solemn twilight | tree rules |
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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