Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 34
Deep chasms yawned around it, the water-drops glittered as if lighted with blue flame, and tinkled like the chiming of church bells.
What happens: yawn, glitter, light, tinkle, chime · To what, where: Deep chasms, ring, water drops
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. 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 | Deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 chasms | amod |
| 2 | chasms | chasm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | yawned | yawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chasms | acl |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 yawned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drops | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drops | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drops | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 water | punct |
| 10 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chasms | conj |
| 11 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 drops | acl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 lighted | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 lighted | mark |
| 14 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 glittered | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 flame | case |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flame | amod |
| 17 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lighted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tinkled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tinkled | cc |
| 20 | tinkled | tinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chasms | parataxis |
| 21 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 23 chiming | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chiming | det |
| 23 | chiming | chime | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 tinkled | advcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bells | case |
| 25 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bells | compound |
| 26 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 chiming | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chasms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yawn | participle | Deep chasms and the water drops not said here | ring | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | glitter | participle | the water drops not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | light | participle | with blue flame | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with flame=Material | |||||
| 4 | tinkle | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | chime | gerund | of church bells | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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