Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 93
And he touched the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose so high, and where he had touched it there gleamed a golden star.
Who acts: God, ceiling · What happens: touch, rise, gleam · To what, where: ceiling, golden star
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, ceiling), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 touched | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ceiling | det |
| 5 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 spray | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spray | det |
| 8 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rose | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ceiling | det |
| 12 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 touched | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 high | advmod |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rose | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 touched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 touched | cc |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 touched | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 touched | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 touched | aux |
| 21 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 touched | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 touched | obj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 gleamed | advmod |
| 24 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 touched | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 star | det |
| 26 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 star | amod |
| 27 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gleamed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | God | the ceiling | with the spray | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ceiling=Experiencer with spray=Instrument | |||
| 2 | rise | past | the ceiling | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | touch | past · perfect | God | ceiling | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | gleam | past | God not said here | a golden star | there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=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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