Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 164
It gleamed in her head, gleamed in joy, beamed brightly in her longing.
Who acts: desire, Mother · What happens: gleam, beam, long · To what, where: head, joy, longing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire, Mother), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gleamed | nsubj |
| 2 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gleamed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gleamed | punct |
| 7 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gleamed | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 joy | case |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gleamed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beamed | punct |
| 11 | beamed | beam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gleamed | conj |
| 12 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 11 beamed | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 longing | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 longing | nmod:poss |
| 15 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beamed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gleamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | past | desire | Mother's head | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Location | ||||
| 2 | gleam | participle | joy | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=Location | |||||
| 3 | beam | participle | Mother's longing | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in longing=Location | ||||
| 4 | long | Mother | nom longing «feeling 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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