Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 78

There was music and song on board; and, as darkness came on, a hundred colored lanterns were lighted, as if the flags of all nations waved in the air.

Who acts: music, darkness, flags · What happens: be, come on, color, light, wave · To what, where: hundred colored lanterns

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, darkness, flags), 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	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 song	cc
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 music	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 board	case
7	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 music	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
12	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lighted	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lanterns	det
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 lanterns	nummod
18	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lanterns	amod
19	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lighted	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lighted	aux:pass
21	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 came	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 waved	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 waved	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 waved	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 flags	det
26	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 waved	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 nations	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 nations	det
29	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flags	nmod
30	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lighted	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 air	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 air	det
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 waved	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	music on board and song		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come on	past	darkness				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	light	past · passive		a hundred colored lanterns			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
5	wave a condition, not said to happen	past	the flags of all nations			in the air	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=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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