Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 55
Life and cheerfulness gleamed there, and busy industry plied its work.
Who acts: Life, busy industry, industry · What happens: gleam, ply, work · To what, where: work
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 (Life, busy industry, industry), 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 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gleamed | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cheerfulness | cc |
| 3 | cheerfulness | cheerfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Life | conj |
| 4 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gleamed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plied | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 plied | cc |
| 8 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 industry | amod |
| 9 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plied | nsubj |
| 10 | plied | ply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gleamed | conj |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 work | nmod:poss |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gleamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | past | Life and cheerfulness | there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ply | past | busy industry | industry's work | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent work=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | work | industry | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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