Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 58
It flashed across the lake in winding, zigzag lines, lighting it up on all sides; while the echoes of the thunder grew louder and stronger.
Who acts: stem, echoes · What happens: flash, light up, grow · To what, where: lake, stem, sides
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 (stem, echoes), 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 | 2 flashed | nsubj |
| 2 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 5 lake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flashed | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 winding | case |
| 7 | winding | winding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flashed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lines | punct |
| 9 | zigzag | zigzag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lines | compound |
| 10 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 winding | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lighting | punct |
| 12 | lighting | light | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 flashed | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lighting | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 lighting | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 sides | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sides | det |
| 17 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lighting | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 grew | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 echoes | det |
| 21 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 thunder | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thunder | det |
| 24 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 echoes | nmod |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flashed | conj |
| 26 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 grew | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stronger | cc |
| 28 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 louder | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past | stem | the lake | in winding and zigzag lines | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in winding=Location | |||
| 2 | light up | gerund | stem not said here | stem | all sides | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 3 | grow | past | the echoes of the thunder | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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