Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 53
It must gleam brighter than all the gas-flames, stronger than the moon that was just gliding past.
Who acts: work, moon · What happens: gleam, glide
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: who acts (work, moon), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gleam | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 gleam | aux |
| 3 | gleam | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 gleam | xcomp |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 flames | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 flames | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flames | det |
| 8 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flames | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 gas | punct |
| 10 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brighter | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stronger | punct |
| 12 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 gleam | conj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 moon | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moon | det |
| 15 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stronger | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 gliding | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gliding | aux |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 gliding | advmod |
| 19 | gliding | glide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 moon | acl:relcl |
| 20 | past | past | ADV | _ | 19 gliding | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gleam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | must | work | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glide | past · progressive | the moon | past property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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