Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 7
The golden circlet gleamed on his brow, his hair fluttered in the wind, and he was clad in steel and iron.
What happens: gleam, flutter, clad · To what, where: golden circlet, brow, hair, wind, giant, steel
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 circlet | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 circlet | amod |
| 3 | circlet | circlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 circlet | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 brow | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gleamed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hair | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brow | appos |
| 11 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hair | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wind | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fluttered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clad | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 clad | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 clad | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 clad | aux:pass |
| 19 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 circlet | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 steel | case |
| 21 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clad | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 iron | cc |
| 23 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steel | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 circlet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | participle | the golden circlet not said here | giant's brow | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brow=Location | ||||
| 2 | flutter | participle | giant's hair not said here | the wind | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | ||||
| 3 | clad | past · passive | giant | steel and iron | tree rules |
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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