Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 3
The gate stood open, lights were burning upon the altar, and the organ sounded.
Who acts: gate, lights, organ · What happens: stand, burn, sound · To what, where: altar
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, lights, organ), 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 gate | det |
| 2 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 burning | punct |
| 6 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burning | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burning | aux |
| 8 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 altar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 altar | det |
| 11 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burning | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sounded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sounded | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 organ | det |
| 15 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sounded | nsubj |
| 16 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the gate | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | burn | past · progressive | lights | the altar | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon altar=Location | ||||
| 3 | sound | past | the organ | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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