Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 84
The ship itself was so brightly illuminated that all the people, and even the smallest rope, could be distinctly and plainly seen.
What happens: illuminate, see · To what, where: ship, people
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: 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 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 illuminated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 ship | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 illuminated | aux |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 illuminated | advmod |
| 6 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 7 illuminated | advmod |
| 7 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 seen | mark |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rope | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rope | cc |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 rope | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rope | det |
| 16 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 rope | amod |
| 17 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 people | punct |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 21 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 24 seen | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seen | cc |
| 23 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 24 seen | advmod |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 illuminated | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 illuminated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | illuminate | past · passive | the ship air | brightly property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | could · passive | all people the smallest rope | distinctly, plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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