--- title: A wonderful blaze of light streamed from one of the monuments in the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:89:47 # text = 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. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 blaze blaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 streamed stream VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 monuments monument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 aisle aisle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 form form VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 round round ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 even even ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 tomb tomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 44 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 50 on on ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 54 gleamed gleam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 acl _ _ 55 like like ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/48/) - ↑ back to [The Metal Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/)