Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 65
Suddenly there came a flash of lightning, as dazzling as the rays of the sun on the white snow.
Who acts: flash, lightning · What happens: come, flash, ray · To what, where: sun
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 (flash, 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flash | det |
| 5 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lightning | case |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flash | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dazzling | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 dazzling | case |
| 10 | dazzling | dazzling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 rays | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rays | det |
| 13 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dazzling | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sun | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rays | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 snow | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 snow | det |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 snow | amod |
| 20 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sun | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a flash of lightning | there | as dazzling as the rays of the sun on the white snow; suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | flash | lightning | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | ray | the sun on the white snow | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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