Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 18
The gold glitters still, but his wings are tied--the lion is dead, for the king of the sea is dead; the great halls stand desolate, and where gorgeous paintings hung of yore, the naked wall now peers through.
Who acts: gold, lion, king, great halls, gorgeous paintings · What happens: glitter, tie, be, stand, desolate, hang · To what, where: wings, gorgeous paintings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, lion, king, great halls), 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 | 2 gold | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glitters | nsubj |
| 3 | glitters | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 glitters | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tied | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 tied | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tied | aux:pass |
| 10 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 glitters | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 dead | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lion | det |
| 13 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dead | cop |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tied | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 king | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dead | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 king | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dead | cop |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tied | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 stand | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 halls | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 halls | amod |
| 28 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stand | nsubj |
| 29 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 glitters | conj |
| 30 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 stand | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 peers | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 peers | cc |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 peers | advmod |
| 34 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 paintings | amod |
| 35 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 peers | nsubj |
| 36 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 paintings | acl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 yore | case |
| 38 | yore | yore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hung | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 peers | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 wall | det |
| 41 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 wall | amod |
| 42 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 peers | nsubj |
| 43 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 peers | advmod |
| 44 | peers | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 glitters | conj |
| 45 | through | through | ADV | _ | 44 peers | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glitters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | present | the gold | still | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tie | present · passive | lion's wings | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the lion | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the king of the sea | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | present | the great halls | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | desolate | infinitive | the great halls not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | hang | participle | gorgeous paintings not said here | of yore | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | peer | present | gorgeous paintings | now | through property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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.
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