Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 108
The stars twinkled; and the new moon, in the form of a crescent, was surrounded by the shadowy disc of the whole moon, and looked like a gray globe with a golden rim: it was a beautiful sight for those who had good eyes.
Who acts: stars, shadowy disc, light · What happens: twinkle, surround, look, be, have, form · To what, where: new moon, beautiful sight, good eyes, crescent
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, shadowy disc, light), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stars | det |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 twinkled | nsubj |
| 3 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 moon | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 moon | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 moon | amod |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twinkled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 form | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 form | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 form | det |
| 12 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moon | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 crescent | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crescent | det |
| 15 | crescent | crescent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 form | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 surrounded | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 18 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 twinkled | parataxis |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 disc | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 disc | det |
| 21 | shadowy | shadowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 disc | amod |
| 22 | disc | disc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 surrounded | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 moon | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moon | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 moon | amod |
| 26 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disc | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 looked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 looked | cc |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 twinkled | conj |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 globe | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 globe | det |
| 32 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 globe | compound |
| 33 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 looked | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 rim | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 rim | det |
| 36 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 rim | amod |
| 37 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 globe | nmod |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 sight | punct |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 sight | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 sight | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 sight | det |
| 42 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 sight | amod |
| 43 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twinkled | parataxis |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 those | case |
| 45 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 43 sight | nmod |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 had | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 those | acl:relcl |
| 48 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 eyes | amod |
| 49 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 had | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 twinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twinkle | past | the stars | the new moon | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | surround | past · passive | the shadowy disc of the whole moon | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the stars not said here | like a gray globe with a golden rim | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | light | a beautiful sight | for those | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | past | good eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||||
| 6 | form | a crescent | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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