Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 14
There was a glancing light, and a beam from the Moon fell upon me.
Who acts: glancing light, beam · What happens: be, glance, fall
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glancing light, beam), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 4 | glancing | glance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 light | amod |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 beam | det |
| 9 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Moon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Moon | det |
| 12 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 beam | nmod |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a glancing light | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glance | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fall | past | a beam from the Moon | upon me | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon i=Location |
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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