Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 85

There was no night-lamp burning, but the room appeared quite light, for the moon shone through the window upon the floor, and made it almost like day.

Who acts: night lamp burning, room · What happens: be, appear, shine, make · To what, where: light, moon, window, room

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night lamp burning, room), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 burning	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burning	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 night	punct
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burning	compound
7	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 appeared	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 appeared	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appeared	nsubj
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 light	advmod
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appeared	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 moon	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 moon	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moon	det
18	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 light	conj
19	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 moon	acl
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 window	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shone	obl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 floor	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 floor	det
25	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shone	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 made	cc
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 appeared	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	obj
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 day	advmod
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 day	case
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no night lamp burning		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	appear	past	the room	light and the moon				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme
3	shine	participle		the moon not said here	the window		upon the floor	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location
4	make	past	the room not said here	room		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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