Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 102
Shining glow-worms covered the ceiling, and sky-blue bats flapped their transparent wings.
Who acts: Shining glow worms, sky blue bats · What happens: shine, cover, flap · To what, where: ceiling, transparent wings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shining glow worms, sky blue bats), 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 | Shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 worms | amod |
| 2 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worms | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 glow | punct |
| 4 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | nsubj |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ceiling | det |
| 7 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flapped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flapped | cc |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bats | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sky | punct |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bats | amod |
| 13 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flapped | nsubj |
| 14 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wings | amod |
| 17 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flapped | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | 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 | cover | past | Shining glow worms | the ceiling | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ceiling=Destination | ||||
| 3 | flap | past | sky blue bats | bats's transparent wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
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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