Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 129
The air gleamed with gold and roses, and life seemed like gold and roses.
Who acts: air · What happens: gleam, seem · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air), 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 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 air | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gleamed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 roses | cc |
| 7 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gold | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seemed | cc |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 roses | cc |
| 15 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gold | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | participle | the air not said here | with gold and roses | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the air | like gold and roses | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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