Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 70
Then the Snow Man looked, and saw a bright polished thing with a brazen knob, and fire gleaming from the lower part of it.
Who acts: Snow Man, fire · What happens: look, see, polish, gleam · To what, where: bright polished thing, lower part
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 (Snow Man, fire), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Man | det |
| 3 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | compound |
| 4 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 11 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 knob | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 knob | det |
| 15 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knob | amod |
| 16 | knob | knob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thing | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fire | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fire | cc |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | conj |
| 20 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 fire | acl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 part | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 part | det |
| 23 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 part | amod |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gleaming | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 part | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Snow Man | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Snow Man not said here | a bright polished thing | with a brazen knob | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | gleam | gerund | fire not said here | the lower part of stove | 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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