Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening, sentence 7
It shone round and great, just in his face, that beamed with triumph, though it was very prettily blacked with soot.
Who acts: sun, face · What happens: shine, beam, black · To what, where: face, sun
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, face), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shone | nsubj |
| 2 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 shone | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 great | cc |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 round | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 face | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 face | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shone | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beamed | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 beamed | nsubj |
| 13 | beamed | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 face | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 triumph | case |
| 15 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beamed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 blacked | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 blacked | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 blacked | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 blacked | aux:pass |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 prettily | advmod |
| 21 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 22 blacked | advmod |
| 22 | blacked | black | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 shone | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 soot | case |
| 24 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blacked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | sun | hip's face | round property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location | |||
| 2 | beam | past | hip's face | with triumph | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with triumph=Theme | ||||
| 3 | black | past · passive | sun | with soot; prettily property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with soot=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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