Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 50
The gas-jets gleamed from the shops, and shone even into the branches of the trees, so that it was like sunlight in summer.
Who acts: gas jets, jet · What happens: gleam, shine, be · To what, where: gas jets, shops, branches
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 (gas jets, jet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jets | det |
| 2 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jets | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 gas | punct |
| 4 | jets | jet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shone | nsubj |
| 5 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 jets | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 shops | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shops | det |
| 8 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gleamed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shone | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shone | cc |
| 11 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 branches | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 branches | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 branches | det |
| 15 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shone | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 trees | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trees | det |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 branches | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sunlight | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 sunlight | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 sunlight | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sunlight | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sunlight | cop |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 sunlight | case |
| 25 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shone | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 summer | case |
| 27 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sunlight | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | participle | the gas jets not said here | the shops | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shine | past | the gas jets | the branches of the trees | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | jet | summer | like sunlight | 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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