Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 77
The beacon light shone from the goal of her longing, shone from the red lighthouse tower of the Fata Morgana of the Champ de Mars.
Who acts: partner · What happens: shine, long · To what, where: beacon light, goal, red lighthouse tower
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 light | det |
| 2 | beacon | beacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | compound |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 light | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 goal | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goal | det |
| 7 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 longing | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 longing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goal | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shone | punct |
| 12 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 light | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 tower | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tower | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tower | amod |
| 16 | lighthouse | lighthouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tower | compound |
| 17 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shone | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Morgana | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Morgana | det |
| 20 | Fata | Fata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Morgana | compound |
| 21 | Morgana | Morgana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tower | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Mars | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Mars | det |
| 24 | Champ | Champ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Mars | compound |
| 25 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Champ | flat |
| 26 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Morgana | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | participle | the beacon light not said here | the goal of partner's longing | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shine | participle | the beacon light not said here | the red lighthouse tower of the Fata Morgana of the Champ Mars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | long | partner | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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