Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 27
She was fair and beautiful, but made of ice--shining and glittering ice.
Who acts: gauze · What happens: be, make, shine, glitter · To what, where: ice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gauze), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beautiful | cc |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fair | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fair | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ice | case |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 shining | punct |
| 12 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 made | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glittering | cc |
| 14 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 shining | conj |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glittering | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gauze | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | gauze not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | participle | of ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | glitter | gerund | ice | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ice=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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