Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 13

His eyes were like two bright stars; and although the water trickled down his hair, it waved in beautiful curls.

Who acts: eyes, water, hair · What happens: be, trickle down, wave · To what, where: hair

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, water, hair), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stars	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stars	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 stars	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 stars	nummod
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stars	amod
7	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 waved	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 waved	cc
10	although	although	SCONJ	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waved	obl
13	trickled	trickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 water	acl
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 trickled	compound:prt
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hair	nmod:poss
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trickled	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 water	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 waved	nsubj
19	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stars	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 curls	case
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 curls	amod
22	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 waved	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stars	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy's eyes		like two bright stars	tree rules
2	trickle down	participle	the water not said here	boy's hair		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Source
3	wave	past	hair		although the water; in beautiful curls	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in curl=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: «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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