Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 86
The gas-lamps saw her, and gleamed and beckoned to her.
Who acts: gas lamps · What happens: see, gleam, beckon · To what, where: trembling
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 lamps), 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 lamps | det |
| 2 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lamps | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 gas | punct |
| 4 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gleamed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gleamed | cc |
| 9 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beckoned | cc |
| 11 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gleamed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beckoned | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the gas lamps | trembling | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | gleam | participle | the gas lamps not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beckon | participle | the gas lamps not said here | trembling | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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