Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 172
The plumage of the wood-pigeon glistened like pearls as it struck the lion's mane with its wings; while the antelope, usually so shy, stood near, nodding its head as if it wished to join in the frolic.
Who acts: plumage · What happens: glisten, strike, stand, nod, wish, join · To what, where: wood pigeon, mane, head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plumage), 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 plumage | det |
| 2 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shy | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pigeon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pigeon | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pigeon | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wood | punct |
| 7 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plumage | nmod |
| 8 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pigeon | acl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 pearls | case |
| 10 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glistened | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 struck | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 struck | nsubj |
| 13 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 glistened | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lion | det |
| 15 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mane | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 lion | case |
| 17 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 wings | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wings | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mane | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 shy | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 antelope | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 antelope | det |
| 24 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shy | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 antelope | punct |
| 26 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 28 shy | advmod |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 shy | advmod |
| 28 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stood | punct |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 shy | conj |
| 31 | near | near | ADV | _ | 30 stood | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 nodding | punct |
| 33 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 stood | advcl |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nodding | obj |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 wished | mark |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 wished | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wished | nsubj |
| 39 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 nodding | advcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 join | mark |
| 41 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 wished | xcomp |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 frolic | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 frolic | det |
| 44 | frolic | frolic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 join | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 shy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glisten | participle | the wood pigeon not said here | like pearls | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | plumage | the lion's mane | with plumage's wings | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mane=Patient with wing=Instrument | |||
| 3 | stand | past | near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | nod | gerund | plumage's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||||
| 5 | wish | past | plumage | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | join not said to happen | to-infinitive | plumage not said here | in the frolic | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in frolic=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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