Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 7

The moon lighted up the snow on the mountain-tops, shone on the dark woods, and on the drifting clouds those fantastic forms which at night might be taken for spirits of the powers of nature.

Who acts: moon · What happens: light up, shine, drift, take · To what, where: snow, mountain tops, dark woods, fantastic forms, drifting clouds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighted	nsubj
3	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 lighted	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snow	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighted	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 tops	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tops	det
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tops	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 mountain	punct
11	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lighted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shone	punct
13	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tops	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 woods	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woods	det
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woods	amod
17	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shone	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 taken	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 taken	cc
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 clouds	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 clouds	det
22	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 clouds	amod
23	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 taken	obl
24	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 forms	det
25	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 forms	amod
26	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 taken	nsubj:pass
27	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	29 night	det
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 night	case
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 taken	nsubj:pass
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 taken	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 taken	aux:pass
32	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lighted	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 spirits	case
34	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 taken	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 powers	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 powers	det
37	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 spirits	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 nature	case
39	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 powers	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	light up	participle	the moon	the snow	the mountain tops		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Product
2	shine	participle		the mountain tops not said here	the dark woods		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wood=Location
3	drift	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	might · passive		that fantastic forms	the drifting clouds	for spirits of the powers of nature	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on cloud=Destination

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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