Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 63
Diamond rings sparkled on his fingers, and it was all real.
Who acts: Diamond rings, gold · What happens: sparkle, be · To what, where: fingers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diamond rings, gold), 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 | Diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rings | compound |
| 2 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sparkled | nsubj |
| 3 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 fingers | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sparkled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 real | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 real | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 real | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 real | cop |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 real | advmod |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sparkled | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sparkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | participle | Diamond rings | stranger's fingers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on finger=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | gold | all, real property | tree rules |
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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