Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 240
A sparkling lizard moved about in the skull, gliding in and out through the sightless holes.
Who acts: sparkling lizard · What happens: move about, glide · To what, where: skull, sightless holes
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 (sparkling lizard), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lizard | det |
| 2 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lizard | amod |
| 3 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 moved | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 skull | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skull | det |
| 8 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gliding | punct |
| 10 | gliding | glide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 moved | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 gliding | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 out | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 in | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 holes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 holes | det |
| 16 | sightless | sightless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 holes | amod |
| 17 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gliding | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move about | past | a sparkling lizard | the skull | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in skull=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | glide | gerund | a sparkling lizard not said here | the sightless holes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hole=Trajectory |
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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