The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 100

The largest was several miles long; the bright Northern lights lit them up, and very large and empty and cold and glittering they were!

Who acts: bright Northern lights · What happens: be, light up, glitter · To what, where: largest several miles, miles

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright Northern lights), 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	5 miles	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 miles	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 miles	cop
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 miles	amod
5	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 long	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 lit	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lit	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lights	det
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lights	amod
10	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lights	amod
11	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lit	nsubj
12	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lit	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 lit	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 large	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 large	cc
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 large	advmod
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lit	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 empty	cc
20	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 large	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cold	cc
22	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 large	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 glittering	cc
24	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 large	conj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 glittering	obj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 large	cop
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 lit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the largest several miles		tree rules
2	light up	past	the bright Northern lights	miles = mile	long property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
3	is	past	the bright Northern lights not said here		large property	tree rules
4	be		the bright Northern lights not said here			tree rules
5	be		the bright Northern lights not said here			tree rules
6	glitter	gerund	the bright Northern lights not said here	miles = mile		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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