Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 71

Meteors are easily explained in these days; they are northern lights, which are often seen, and are no doubt caused by electricity."

Who acts: houses · What happens: explain, be, see, cause · To what, where: Meteors, northern lights, doubt

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses), 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	Meteors	meteor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 explained	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 explained	aux:pass
3	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 explained	advmod
4	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 days	det
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 explained	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lights	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lights	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lights	cop
11	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lights	amod
12	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 explained	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 seen	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux:pass
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 seen	advmod
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lights	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 doubt	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 doubt	cc
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 doubt	cop
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 doubt	det
22	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seen	obl
23	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 doubt	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 electricity	case
25	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caused	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 explained	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present · passive		Meteors	day	easily property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is a	present	houses = house	northern lights			tree rules
3	see	present · passive		northern lights		often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	is a	present		no doubt			tree rules
5	cause	participle		no doubt not said here		by electricity	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

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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