Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 20
In the distance lamps gleamed, like a reflection from the world-city above.
What happens: gleam · To what, where: distance lamps
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 lamps | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lamps | det |
| 3 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lamps | compound |
| 4 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lamps | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reflection | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 reflection | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reflection | det |
| 9 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gleamed | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 city | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 world | punct |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reflection | nmod |
| 15 | above | above | ADV | _ | 14 city | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lamps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | participle | the distance lamps not said here | like a reflection from the world city | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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