Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 81

The sailors were dancing on deck, but when the prince came out of the cabin, more than a hundred rockets rose in the air, making it as bright as day.

Who acts: sailors, prince, hundred rockets · What happens: dance, come out, rise, make · To what, where: deck, cabin, air

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 (sailors, prince, hundred rockets), 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	2 sailors	det
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dancing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dancing	aux
4	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 deck	case
6	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dancing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rose	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 rose	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rose	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 cabin	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cabin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cabin	det
16	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	21 hundred	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	18 more	fixed
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hundred	det
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 rockets	nummod
22	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rose	nsubj
23	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dancing	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 air	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rose	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 making	punct
28	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 rose	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 making	obj
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 bright	advmod
31	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 making	xcomp
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 day	case
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bright	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dancing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	the sailors		deck		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Location
2	come out	past	the prince	the cabin			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cabin=Result
3	rise	past	hundred rockets		the air		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location
4	make	gerund	hundred rockets not said here	air		bright property	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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