Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 144
And the eyes of all sparkled with malice. "
Who acts: eyes · What happens: sparkle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sparkled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eyes | det |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sparkled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 6 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 malice | case |
| 8 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sparkled | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sparkled | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sparkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | participle | the eyes of all | with malice | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with malice=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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