Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 251
He opened his eyes, and saw the star in the distance, but it was the morning star in heaven which glittered in the darkness.
Who acts: prince, star, morning star · What happens: open, see, be, glitter · To what, where: eyes, star, morning star, heaven, darkness
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 (prince, star, morning 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 star | det |
| 9 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 distance | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 distance | det |
| 12 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 star | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 star | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 star | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 star | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 star | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 star | det |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 star | compound |
| 19 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 heaven | case |
| 21 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 star | nmod |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 glittered | nsubj |
| 23 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 star | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 darkness | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 darkness | det |
| 26 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glittered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | prince | prince's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | prince not said here | the star | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | past | star | the morning star | heaven | tree rules | |||
| 4 | glitter | past | the morning star | the darkness | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=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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