Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 48
Lately a gleaming star fell in the southwest, as a tribute of thanksgiving to many--many! '
Who acts: gleaming star · What happens: gleam, fall · To what, where: southwest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gleaming star), 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 | Lately | lately | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 star | det |
| 3 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 star | amod |
| 4 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 southwest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 southwest | det |
| 8 | southwest | southwest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tribute | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 tribute | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tribute | det |
| 12 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thanksgiving | case |
| 14 | thanksgiving | thanksgiving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tribute | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 many | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 many | punct |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | parataxis |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 many | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | fall | past | a gleaming star | the southwest | as a tribute of thanksgiving; to many; lately property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in southwest=Location |
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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