Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 84

That is certainly a young peacock, for it glitters in all colours; it makes one's eyes ache, as mother told us.

Who acts: That, nest, eyes, mother · What happens: be, glitter, make, ache, tell · To what, where: young peacock, colours, one, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, nest, eyes, mother), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 peacock	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 peacock	cop
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 peacock	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 peacock	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 peacock	amod
6	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 glitters	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 glitters	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 glitters	nsubj
10	glitters	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 peacock	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 colours	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 colours	det
13	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 glitters	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 makes	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 makes	nsubj
16	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 glitters	conj
17	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 makes	obj
18	's	's	PART	_	17 one	case
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ache	nsubj
20	ache	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 makes	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 makes	parataxis
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 peacock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a young peacock			certainly property	tree rules
2	glitter	present	nest			all colours		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in colour=Location
3	make	present	nest	one				tree rules
4	ache	present	eyes					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	past	mother		us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient

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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