Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 114

When we entered the little, unpretending church, the evening sunlight streamed through the open door on the burning lamp, and glittered on the golden picture frames.

Who acts: we · What happens: enter, stream, glitter · To what, where: little unpretending church, evening sunlight, open door, golden picture frames

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 entered	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 church	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 little	punct
7	unpretending	unpretending	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 church	amod
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sunlight	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sunlight	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sunlight	compound
12	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 church	conj
13	streamed	stream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sunlight	acl
14	through	through	ADP	_	17 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 door	amod
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 streamed	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 lamp	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lamp	det
20	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lamp	compound
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 door	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 glittered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 glittered	cc
24	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 entered	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 frames	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 frames	det
27	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 frames	amod
28	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 frames	compound
29	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 glittered	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	enter	past	we	the little unpretending church and the evening sunlight		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Destination
2	stream	participle		the evening sunlight not said here	the open door on the burning lamp	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Location
3	glitter	participle	we not said here		the golden picture frames	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on frame=Location

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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