Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 211

The turf blazed brightly on the hearth, and within was sunlight, the sparkling light from the sunny eyes of a child; the birdlike tones from the rosy lips ringing like the song of a lark in spring.

Who acts: turf, rosy lips, lark · What happens: blaze, be, ring, sing · To what, where: birdlike tones, hearth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turf, rosy lips, lark), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 turf	det
2	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blazed	nsubj
3	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	3 blazed	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hearth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hearth	det
7	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blazed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sunlight	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sunlight	cc
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 sunlight	case
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sunlight	cop
12	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blazed	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 light	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 light	det
15	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 light	amod
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sunlight	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 eyes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eyes	det
19	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eyes	amod
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 light	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 child	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eyes	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tones	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tones	det
26	birdlike	birdlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tones	amod
27	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blazed	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 lips	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lips	det
30	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lips	amod
31	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tones	nmod
32	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 lips	acl
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 song	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 song	det
35	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ringing	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 lark	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 lark	det
38	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 song	nmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 spring	case
40	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lark	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blaze	past	the turf	the birdlike tones from the rosy lips	the hearth	brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hearth=Location
2	is	past				within sunlight and the sparkling light from the sunny eyes of a child	tree rules
3	ring	gerund	the rosy lips not said here			like the song of a lark in spring	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing		a lark in spring				nom song «communication 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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