Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 71
At last the tapers were lighted, and then what a glistening blaze of light the tree presented!
Who acts: glistening blaze, light · What happens: light, glisten, present, blaze · To what, where: last tapers, tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glistening blaze, light), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tapers | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tapers | det |
| 4 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lighted | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lighted | aux:pass |
| 6 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 what | advmod |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 lighted | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blaze | det |
| 12 | glistening | glisten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 blaze | amod |
| 13 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 light | case |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blaze | nmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 blaze | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past · passive | the last tapers | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=Product | |||||
| 2 | glisten | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | present | participle · passive | a glistening blaze of light not said here | the tree | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blaze | light | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=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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