Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 76
Before her she saw a flame in the air, a flashing light high up on a tower.
Who acts: partner · What happens: see, flash · To what, where: flame, air
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 (partner), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 saw | mark |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flame | det |
| 6 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flame | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 light | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 light | det |
| 12 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 light | amod |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 14 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 up | advmod |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 light | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 tower | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tower | det |
| 18 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 light | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | partner | a flame | the air | a flashing light on a tower obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flame=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | flash | gerund | 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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