Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 14
His eyes sparkled like two bright stars, and although the water flowed down from his fair locks, they still curled quite beautifully.
Who acts: eyes, water · What happens: sparkle, flow down, curl · To what, where: fair locks
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, water), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sparkled | nsubj |
| 3 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 stars | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 stars | nummod |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stars | amod |
| 7 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sparkled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 curled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 curled | cc |
| 10 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 13 flowed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flowed | nsubj |
| 13 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 curled | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 flowed | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 locks | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 locks | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 locks | amod |
| 18 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flowed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flowed | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 curled | nsubj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 curled | advmod |
| 22 | curled | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sparkled | advcl |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 beautifully | advmod |
| 24 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 22 curled | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sparkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | participle | boy's eyes | like two bright stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flow down | past | the water | boy's fair locks | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | curl | past | eyes = eye | still | beautifully property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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