Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 28
Still she was alive and her eyes sparkled like bright stars, but there was neither peace nor rest in their glance.
Who acts: gauze, peace · What happens: be, sparkle, glance · To what, where: eyes
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, peace), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 alive | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 alive | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alive | cop |
| 4 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 eyes | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 alive | conj |
| 8 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 eyes | acl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 stars | case |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stars | amod |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sparkled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alive | conj |
| 16 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 peace | cc:preconj |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alive | parataxis |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 rest | cc |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 peace | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 glance | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 glance | nmod:poss |
| 22 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rest | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gauze | still | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sparkle | participle | gauze's eyes not said here | like bright stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | gauze not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | glance | peace | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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