Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 96
He no longer carried the sharp sword, but a beautiful green branch, full of roses; with this he touched the ceiling, which rose up very high, and where he had touched it there shone a golden star.
Who acts: God · What happens: carry, touch, rise up, shine · To what, where: sharp sword, ceiling, golden star
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | no | no | ADV | _ | 3 longer | advmod |
| 3 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 carried | advmod |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sword | det |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sword | amod |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 full | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 full | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 branch | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 branch | amod |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 branch | amod |
| 13 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 full | punct |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 carried | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 roses | case |
| 17 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 full | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 touched | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 this | case |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 touched | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 touched | nsubj |
| 22 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ceiling | det |
| 24 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 touched | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rose | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 rose | nsubj |
| 27 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 touched | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 rose | compound:prt |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 high | advmod |
| 30 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 rose | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 touched | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 touched | cc |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 touched | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 touched | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 touched | aux |
| 36 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 carried | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 touched | obj |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 shone | advmod |
| 39 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 touched | advcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 star | det |
| 41 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 star | amod |
| 42 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shone | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | God | the sharp sword | long property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | touch | past | God | the ceiling | with this | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ceiling=Experiencer with this=Instrument | |||
| 3 | rise up | past | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | touch | past · perfect | God | ceiling | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | shine | past | God not said here | a golden star | there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=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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