Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 4
"The morning dawn came glimmering red.
Who acts: morning dawn · What happens: come, glimmer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning dawn), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dawn | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dawn | compound |
| 4 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | glimmering | glimmer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 glimmering | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | the morning dawn | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | glimmer in a quote | gerund | the morning dawn not said here | red property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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.
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