Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 57
The lightning was so vivid that every single vine stem could be seen for a moment as distinctly as in the sunlight at noon-day; and then all was veiled in darkness.
Who acts: lightning · What happens: be, see, veil · To what, where: single vine stem, all
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: who acts (lightning), 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 lightning | det |
| 2 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vivid | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vivid | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 vivid | advmod |
| 5 | vivid | vivid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 seen | mark |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 stem | det |
| 8 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stem | amod |
| 9 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stem | compound |
| 10 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 vivid | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 distinctly | advmod |
| 18 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 13 seen | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 sunlight | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sunlight | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sunlight | det |
| 22 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 distinctly | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 24 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 day | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 noon | punct |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sunlight | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 veiled | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 veiled | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 veiled | advmod |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 veiled | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 veiled | aux:pass |
| 32 | veiled | veil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 vivid | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 darkness | case |
| 34 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 veiled | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vivid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lightning | vivid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | could · passive | every single vine stem | moment | distinctly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | veil | past · passive | all | then | in darkness | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in darkness=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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