Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 84

The mole took a piece of phosphorescent wood in his mouth, and it glittered like fire in the dark; then he went before them to light them through the long, dark passage.

Who acts: mole, piece, neighbor · What happens: take, glitter, go, light · To what, where: piece, mouth, dark, birds, long dark passage

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mole, piece, neighbor), 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 mole	det
2	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 piece	det
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	phosphorescent	phosphorescent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouth	nmod:poss
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 glittered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 glittered	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 glittered	nsubj
15	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 fire	case
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 glittered	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dark	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dark	det
20	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 glittered	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 went	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 light	mark
28	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 went	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 light	obj
30	through	through	ADP	_	35 passage	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 passage	det
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 passage	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 long	punct
34	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 passage	amod
35	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 light	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the mole	a piece of phosphorescent wood	neighbor's mouth			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Value in mouth=Location
2	glitter	past	piece		the dark		like fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location
3	go	past	neighbor			before birds = bird; then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before they=Location
4	light	to-infinitive	neighbor not said here	birds = bird	the long dark passage			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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