Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 31
The Christmas lights rose higher and higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky.
Who acts: Christmas lights, Lights · What happens: rise, look · To what, where: goose
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christmas lights, Lights), 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 | 3 lights | det |
| 2 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lights | compound |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 rose | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 higher | cc |
| 7 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 higher | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 looked | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 stars | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stars | det |
| 16 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sky | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sky | det |
| 19 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stars | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the Christmas lights | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Lights = light | goose | like the stars in the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=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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