Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 11
In front of these was fixed a glittering tinsel rose, as large as her whole face.
Who acts: glittering tinsel · What happens: fix, glitter, rise · To what, where: these, front
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glittering tinsel), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obl |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 fixed | mark |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fixed | aux:pass |
| 6 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rose | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tinsel | det |
| 8 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 tinsel | amod |
| 9 | tinsel | tinsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 large | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 large | advmod |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rose | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 face | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 face | amod |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 large | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · passive | these | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | rise | past | a glittering tinsel | front | large property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=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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