Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 106
Over it hung a canopy of rose-colored spider's webs, spotted with the prettiest little green flies, which sparkled like precious stones.
Who acts: throne, prettiest little green flies · What happens: hang, color, spot, sparkle · To what, where: canopy, colored webs
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 (throne, prettiest little green flies), 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 | Over | over | SCONJ | _ | 3 hung | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 canopy | det |
| 5 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 webs | case |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 colored | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 9 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 webs | amod |
| 10 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 webs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 spider | case |
| 12 | webs | web | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 canopy | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spotted | punct |
| 14 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 webs | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 flies | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 flies | det |
| 17 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 flies | amod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flies | amod |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flies | amod |
| 20 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spotted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sparkled | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sparkled | nsubj |
| 23 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flies | acl:relcl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 stones | case |
| 25 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stones | amod |
| 26 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sparkled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | throne | a canopy of spider's colored webs | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canopy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | spot | participle | spider's colored webs not said here | with the prettiest little green flies | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with fly=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sparkle | past | the prettiest little green flies | like precious stones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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