Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 176
The East Wind gave her the palm-leaf, on which was written the history of the phoenix; and her eyes sparkled with joy.
Who acts: East Wind, eyes · What happens: give, write, sparkle · To what, where: palm leaf, countenance, history
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 (East Wind, eyes), 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 | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leaf | det |
| 7 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaf | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 palm | punct |
| 9 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 written | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 written | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 written | aux:pass |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 history | det |
| 16 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 written | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 phoenix | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 phoenix | det |
| 19 | phoenix | phoenix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 history | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sparkled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sparkled | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sparkled | nsubj |
| 24 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 joy | case |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sparkled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the East Wind | the palm leaf | countenance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient leaf=Theme | |||
| 2 | write | past · passive | the East Wind not said here | the history of the phoenix | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: history=Theme on which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sparkle | participle | countenance's eyes | with joy | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=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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