Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 76
The whole firmament was ablaze with the northern lights, and yet the darkness triumphed.
Who acts: whole firmament, darkness · What happens: be, triumph
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole firmament, darkness), 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 | 3 firmament | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 firmament | amod |
| 3 | firmament | firmament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ablaze | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ablaze | cop |
| 5 | ablaze | ablaze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 lights | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lights | det |
| 8 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lights | amod |
| 9 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ablaze | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 triumphed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 triumphed | cc |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 triumphed | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 darkness | det |
| 14 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 triumphed | nsubj |
| 15 | triumphed | triumph | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ablaze | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ablaze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the whole firmament | with the northern lights; ablaze property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | triumph | past | the darkness | yet | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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