Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 196
The golden star of tinsel was still on the top of the Tree, and glittered in the sunshine.
Who acts: golden star · What happens: be, glitter · To what, where: top, sunshine
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden star), 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 | 3 star | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tinsel | case |
| 5 | tinsel | tinsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 top | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 top | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tree | det |
| 13 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glittered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glittered | cc |
| 16 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 top | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sunshine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sunshine | det |
| 19 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glittered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 top | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the golden star of tinsel | the top | still | of the Tree | tree rules | ||
| 2 | glitter | participle | the golden star of tinsel not said here | the sunshine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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