Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 94
Here a sea of light streamed forth from the gas-flames of the lamps, the shops and the cafes.
Who acts: lamps · What happens: stream, flame · To what, where: light, gas flames
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 (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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 light | case |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sea | nmod |
| 6 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 light | acl |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 streamed | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 flames | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flames | det |
| 10 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flames | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 gas | punct |
| 12 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 streamed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lamps | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lamps | det |
| 15 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flames | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shops | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shops | det |
| 18 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lamps | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cafes | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cafes | det |
| 21 | cafes | cafe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lamps | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | participle | light not said here | the gas flames of the lamps and the shops and the cafes | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from flame=Source | |||
| 2 | flame | the lamps and the shops and the cafes | nom flame «process 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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