Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 59
How vividly were represented to him, in a glittering tear that rolled down his cheek, two children at play--a boy and a girl.
Who acts: glittering tear · What happens: represent, glitter, roll down · To what, where: Denmark, glittering tear, cheek, play
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 (glittering tear), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 represented | advmod |
| 2 | vividly | vividly | ADV | _ | 4 represented | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 represented | aux:pass |
| 4 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 represented | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tear | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tear | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tear | det |
| 10 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 tear | amod |
| 11 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 represented | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 rolled | nsubj |
| 13 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tear | acl:relcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 rolled | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rolled | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 children | punct |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 children | nummod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cheek | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 play | case |
| 21 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rolled | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 boy | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 play | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 girl | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 girl | det |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 play | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | past · passive | Denmark | a glittering tear | vividly property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: to he=Attribute | |||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | roll down | past | a glittering tear | Denmark's cheek and two children | play and a boy and a girl | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme at play=Trajectory |
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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