Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 11
The calyx of the flower itself formed a most beautiful, glittering, circular hall, above which no other roof arose than the blue firmament and the sun and stars.
Who acts: calyx, other roof · What happens: form, glitter, arise · To what, where: circular hall
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (calyx, other roof), 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 calyx | det |
| 2 | calyx | calyx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 flower | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flower | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 calyx | nmod |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 flower | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beautiful | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 formed | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glittering | punct |
| 12 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 formed | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hall | punct |
| 14 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hall | amod |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glittering | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 arose | punct |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 arose | obl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 roof | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 roof | amod |
| 21 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arose | nsubj |
| 22 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 formed | conj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 firmament | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 firmament | det |
| 25 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 firmament | amod |
| 26 | firmament | firmament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arose | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sun | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sun | det |
| 29 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 firmament | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stars | cc |
| 31 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 firmament | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | the calyx of the flower calyx | beautiful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | the calyx of the flower calyx not said here | circular hall | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | ||||
| 3 | arise | past | no other roof | than the blue firmament and the sun and stars | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above which=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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