Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 244
The bright Star gleamed unaltered, radiant and large, as it had gleamed for thousands of years, and the air glowed red with tints fresh as roses, crimson like blood.
Who acts: bright Star, air · What happens: gleam, glow · To what, where: lizard
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 (bright Star, 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 | 3 Star | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Star | amod |
| 3 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gleamed | nsubj |
| 4 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unaltered | unaltered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gleamed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 radiant | punct |
| 7 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 unaltered | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 large | cc |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 unaltered | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gleamed | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 gleamed | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gleamed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gleamed | aux |
| 14 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gleamed | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 thousands | case |
| 16 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gleamed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thousands | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 glowed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 glowed | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 air | det |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glowed | nsubj |
| 23 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gleamed | conj |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fresh | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 tints | case |
| 26 | tints | tint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 red | obl |
| 27 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 glowed | ccomp |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 roses | case |
| 29 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fresh | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 crimson | punct |
| 31 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roses | conj |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 blood | case |
| 33 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 crimson | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gleamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | past | the bright Star | unaltered property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | gleam | past · perfect · passive | lizard | for thousands of years | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glow | past | the air | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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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