Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 23
The king's castle was surrounded by lofty towers, and radiant light streamed from all the windows.
What happens: surround, stream · To what, where: castle, radiant light, windows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 castle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 6 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 towers | case |
| 8 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 towers | amod |
| 9 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 surrounded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 light | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 light | cc |
| 12 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 light | amod |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surrounded | parataxis |
| 14 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 light | acl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 windows | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 windows | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 windows | det |
| 18 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 streamed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past · passive | the king's castle | by lofty towers | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | stream | participle | radiant light not said here | all windows | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from window=Source |
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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