Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 37
Summer cannot show a more beautiful sight," she exclaimed, while her eyes sparkled.
Who acts: Summer, girl, eyes · What happens: not show, exclaim, sparkle · To what, where: beautiful sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Summer, girl, 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 | Summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 show | advmod |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sight | amod |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sparkled | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 sparkled | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sparkled | nsubj |
| 17 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 exclaimed | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show | can | Summer | a beautiful sight | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent sight=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sparkle in a quote | past | girl's eyes | 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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