Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 19
This verse Jurgen sang with so much feeling that his eyes beamed, and they were black and sparkling since his infancy.
Who acts: verse, eyes · What happens: sing, feel, beam, be, sparkle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (verse, eyes), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 verse | det |
| 2 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 verse | appos |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 feeling | mark |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 feeling | advmod |
| 8 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sang | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 beamed | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beamed | nsubj |
| 12 | beamed | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 feeling | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 black | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 black | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 black | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 black | cop |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sang | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sparkling | cc |
| 19 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 black | conj |
| 20 | since | since | ADP | _ | 22 infancy | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 infancy | nmod:poss |
| 22 | infancy | infancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sparkling | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | this verse | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | this verse not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | beam | past | Jurgen's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | eyes = eye | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sparkle | gerund | eyes = eye not said here | since Jurgen's infancy | 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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