Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 85

I know not whether the clear, blue atmosphere gleamed with its own light, or if the radiance came from the stars; but we could distinguish quite plainly the outline of the mountains.

Who acts: I, radiance, we, atmosphere · What happens: not know, gleam, come, distinguish, light · To what, where: clear blue atmosphere, stars, outline

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 (I, radiance, we, atmosphere), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 know	advmod
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 atmosphere	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 atmosphere	det
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 atmosphere	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 clear	punct
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 atmosphere	amod
9	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	ccomp
10	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 atmosphere	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 light	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 light	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 light	amod
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gleamed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 radiance	det
19	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 stars	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stars	det
23	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 came	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 distinguish	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 distinguish	cc
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 distinguish	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 distinguish	aux
28	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	parataxis
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 plainly	advmod
30	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	28 distinguish	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 outline	det
32	outline	outline	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 distinguish	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 mountains	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mountains	det
35	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 outline	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	gleam	participle		the clear blue atmosphere not said here		with atmosphere's own light	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme
3	come a condition, not said to happen	past	the radiance		the stars		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from star=Initial_Location
4	distinguish	could	we	the outline of the mountains		plainly property	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute outline=Theme
5	light		atmosphere				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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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