Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 88
They were shining brightly; but I knew not they were yours.
Who acts: eyes, I · What happens: shine, not know, be · To what, where: yours
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shining | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shining | aux |
| 3 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 3 shining | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shining | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 knew | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 yours | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 yours | cop |
| 12 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knew | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past · progressive | eyes = eye | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | eyes = eye | yours | tree rules |
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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