Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 47

A wonderful blaze of light streamed from one of the monuments in the left-side aisle, and a thousand moving stars seemed to form a glory round it; even the coat-of-arms on the tomb-stone shone, and a red ladder on a blue field gleamed like fire.

Who acts: wonderful blaze, light · What happens: stream, move, seem, form, shine, gleam · To what, where: wonderful blaze, coat, glory, tomb stone, blue field

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 (wonderful blaze, light), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blaze	det
2	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blaze	amod
3	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 light	case
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blaze	nmod
6	streamed	stream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 blaze	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 streamed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 monuments	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monuments	det
11	monuments	monument	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	17 aisle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 aisle	det
14	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 side	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 aisle	compound
17	aisle	aisle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 monuments	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seemed	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thousand	det
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 stars	nummod
22	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 stars	amod
23	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	to	to	PART	_	26 form	mark
26	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seemed	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 glory	det
28	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 form	obj
29	round	round	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 form	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 coat	punct
32	even	even	ADV	_	34 coat	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 coat	det
34	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	obl
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 arms	punct
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 arms	case
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 of	punct
38	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 coat	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	43 stone	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 stone	det
41	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stone	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 tomb	punct
43	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 arms	nmod
44	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 stone	acl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 ladder	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 ladder	cc
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 ladder	det
48	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 ladder	amod
49	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 coat	conj
50	on	on	ADP	_	53 field	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 field	det
52	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 field	amod
53	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 ladder	nmod
54	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 field	acl
55	like	like	ADP	_	56 fire	case
56	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 gleamed	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stream	participle		a wonderful blaze of light not said here	from one of the monuments in the side aisle	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from one=Source
2	move	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	a wonderful blaze of light	the coat and arms on the tomb stone and a red ladder on a blue field		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	form	to-infinitive	a wonderful blaze of light not said here	a glory	round light	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glory=Theme
5	shine	participle		the tomb stone not said here		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	gleam	participle		a blue field not said here	like fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	blaze		light			nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent

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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