Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 183
It was as if lighted up with a ray of sunshine.
What happens: light up, ray · To what, where: breathing, sunshine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lighted | aux |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 lighted | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 lighted | mark |
| 5 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 lighted | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 ray | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ray | det |
| 9 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lighted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sunshine | case |
| 11 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ray | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light up | past · passive | breathing | with a ray of sunshine | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product with ray=Material | ||||
| 2 | ray | sunshine | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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