Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 18
Then the face of the dead one gleamed like the margin of the cloud in the moonlight.
What happens: gleam · To what, where: dead one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 face | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 face | det |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 face | nmod |
| 8 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 one | acl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 margin | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 margin | det |
| 11 | margin | margin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gleamed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cloud | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cloud | det |
| 14 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 margin | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 moonlight | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moonlight | det |
| 17 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cloud | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | participle | the dead one not said here | like the margin of the cloud in the moonlight | 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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