Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 71
Like a lightning flash the slender stem shot upwards in a zigzag line, the branches spreading around it like green gauze and banners.
Who acts: slender stem, branches · What happens: shoot, spread · To what, where: zigzag line, stem
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slender stem, branches), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 flash | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flash | det |
| 3 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flash | compound |
| 4 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shot | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stem | det |
| 6 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stem | amod |
| 7 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shot | nsubj |
| 8 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 8 shot | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 line | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 line | det |
| 12 | zigzag | zigzag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 line | compound |
| 13 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shot | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 branches | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branches | det |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 line | appos |
| 17 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 branches | acl |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spreading | obl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 gauze | case |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gauze | amod |
| 22 | gauze | gauze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spreading | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 banners | cc |
| 24 | banners | banner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gauze | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | the slender stem | a zigzag line | like a lightning flash; upwards property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in line=Destination | |||
| 2 | spread | gerund | the branches not said here | stem | like green gauze and banners | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Location |
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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