Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 19

She leaned over the balcony, gazing at the sparkling stars that shone clearer and brighter in the pure air than they had done in the north, and yet they were the same stars.

Who acts: Helga, sparkling stars, stars · What happens: learn, gaze, shine, do, be · To what, where: balcony, pure air, north, same stars

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, sparkling stars, stars), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaned	nsubj
2	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 balcony	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 balcony	det
5	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gazing	punct
7	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 leaned	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 stars	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stars	det
10	sparkling	sparkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stars	compound
11	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gazing	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 shone	nsubj
13	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stars	acl:relcl
14	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 shone	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brighter	cc
16	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 clearer	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 air	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
19	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 air	amod
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shone	obl
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 done	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 done	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 shone	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 north	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 north	det
27	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 done	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stars	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 stars	cc
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	35 stars	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stars	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 stars	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stars	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stars	amod
35	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaned	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	Helga		the balcony			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gaze	gerund	Helga not said here				at the sparkling stars	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme
3	shine	past	the sparkling stars		the pure air		clear property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
4	do	past · perfect	stars = star		the north			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	stars = star	the same stars		yet		tree rules

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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