Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 15

The fruit glittered like gold, and there were cakes so full of plums that they were nearly bursting.

Who acts: fruit, plums · What happens: glitter, be, burst · To what, where: fruit

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fruit, plums), 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 fruit	det
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	nsubj
3	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fruit	acl
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glittered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 were	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 full	cop
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 full	advmod
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 plums	case
14	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 full	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 bursting	nsubj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bursting	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bursting	aux
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	19 bursting	advmod
19	bursting	burst	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 plums	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	glitter	participle		the fruit not said here	like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the fruit		of plums; full property	tree rules
3	burst	past · progressive	plums		nearly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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