Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 5
From all periods, and from every country, these shining pictures display themselves to us.
Who acts: shining pictures · What happens: shine, display · To what, where: pictures, us, periods
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shining pictures), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 periods | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 periods | det |
| 3 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 display | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 country | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 country | cc |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 periods | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 periods | punct |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 pictures | det |
| 11 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 pictures | amod |
| 12 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 display | nsubj |
| 13 | display | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 display | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 display | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 display | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | display | present | this shining pictures | pictures = picture | us | all periods and every country | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to we=Recipient |
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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