Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 35

Little spiders spun golden threads around it, and then it was hung with fluttering veils and flags so delicately white that they glittered like snow in the moonshine.

Who acts: Little spiders, Maypole, spiders · What happens: spin, be, flutter, glitter · To what, where: golden threads, Maypole, veils, moonshine

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little spiders, Maypole, spiders), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spiders	amod
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spun	nsubj
3	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 threads	amod
5	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spun	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spun	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hung	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hung	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 hung	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hung	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hung	cop
13	hung	hung	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spun	parataxis
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	15 fluttering	mark
15	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hung	advcl
16	veils	veil	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fluttering	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flags	cc
18	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 veils	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 white	advmod
20	delicately	delicately	ADV	_	21 white	advmod
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fluttering	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 glittered	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 glittered	nsubj
24	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 white	advcl
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 snow	case
26	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glittered	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 moonshine	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 moonshine	det
29	moonshine	moonshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glittered	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past	Little spiders	golden threads	Maypole			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thread=Theme around it=Trajectory
2	is	past	Maypole			then	hung property	tree rules
3	flutter	gerund	Maypole not said here	veils and flags				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location veil=Theme
4	glitter	past	spiders = spider		the moonshine		like snow	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonshine=Location

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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