Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 80

The moon shone bright, gas-lamps spread light around, through the halls, over the all-world's buildings scattered about, over the rose-hills and the rocks produced by human ingenuity, from which waterfalls, driven by the power of "Master Bloodless," fell down.

Who acts: moon, gas lamps · What happens: shine, spread around, scatter, produce, drive, fall down · To what, where: light, halls, buildings, rocks

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 (moon, gas 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shone	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spread	punct
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lamps	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 gas	punct
8	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spread	nsubj
9	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	parataxis
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spread	obj
11	around	around	ADV	_	9 spread	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 halls	punct
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 halls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 halls	det
15	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spread	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 buildings	punct
17	over	over	ADP	_	23 buildings	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 buildings	det
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 world	det
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 all	punct
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 buildings	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 world	case
23	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spread	obl
24	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 buildings	acl
25	about	about	ADV	_	24 scattered	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hills	punct
27	over	over	ADP	_	31 hills	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hills	det
29	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hills	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 rose	punct
31	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 buildings	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rocks	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rocks	det
34	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 buildings	conj
35	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 rocks	acl
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 ingenuity	case
37	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ingenuity	amod
38	ingenuity	ingenuity	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 produced	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 waterfalls	punct
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	42 waterfalls	det
42	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 buildings	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 driven	punct
44	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 buildings	acl
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 power	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 power	det
47	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 driven	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 Master	case
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 Master	punct
50	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 power	nmod
51	Bloodless	Bloodless	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Master	flat
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 fell	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 fell	punct
54	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
55	down	down	ADV	_	54 fell	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the moon			bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spread around	present	gas lamps	light	the halls	over all world's buildings and the rose hills and the rocks and which waterfalls; around property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme through hall=Destination
3	scatter	participle		all world's buildings and the rose hills and the rocks and which waterfalls not said here		about property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
4	produce	participle		the rocks not said here		by human ingenuity	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	drive	participle		all world's buildings and the rose hills and the rocks and which waterfalls not said here		by the power of Master	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	fall down	past	the moon not said here			down property	vn occur-48.3 «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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