Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 77
But the marriage lamps in the festive hall had been all extinguished, and the torches outside had vanished.
Who acts: marriage lamps, torches · What happens: be, vanish
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 (marriage lamps, torches), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 extinguished | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lamps | det |
| 3 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lamps | compound |
| 4 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 extinguished | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hall | det |
| 7 | festive | festive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hall | amod |
| 8 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lamps | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 extinguished | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 extinguished | cop |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 extinguished | advmod |
| 12 | extinguished | extinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vanished | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 vanished | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 torches | det |
| 16 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 vanished | nsubj |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 16 torches | advmod |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 vanished | aux |
| 19 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 extinguished | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 extinguished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the marriage lamps in the festive hall | all, extinguished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vanish | past · perfect | the torches | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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