Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 224
Then a pearl rolled out, and then another, and another, and they glittered and sounded as they fell. "
Who acts: pearls · What happens: roll out, glitter, sound, fall · To what, where: pearl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearls), 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 | 4 rolled | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pearl | det |
| 3 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 rolled | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 another | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 another | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 another | advmod |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 rolled | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 another | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 another | cc |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 another | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glittered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glittered | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 glittered | nsubj |
| 16 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rolled | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sounded | cc |
| 18 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 glittered | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 fell | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sounded | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll out | participle · passive | a pearl | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glitter | past | pearls = pearl | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sound | past | pearls = pearl not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | pearls = pearl | vn occur-48.3 «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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