Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 193

The lamp before the picture of the Madonna threw a strong, effective light on the pale, delicate face of the child.

Who acts: lamp · What happens: throw · To what, where: strong effective light, pale delicate face

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp), 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 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	nsubj
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 picture	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 picture	det
5	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lamp	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Madonna	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Madonna	det
8	Madonna	Madonna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 picture	nmod
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 light	det
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 light	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 strong	punct
13	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 light	amod
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	20 face	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 face	det
17	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 face	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pale	punct
19	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 face	amod
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 child	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 face	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the lamp before the picture of the Madonna	a strong effective light		the pale delicate face of the child			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme on face=Destination

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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