Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 41
The golden crown on her head glittered like the stars of heaven, and her mantle was formed of thousands of butterflies' wings sewn together.
Who acts: golden crown · What happens: glitter, form, sew · To what, where: mantle, 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 (golden crown), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crown | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crown | amod |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glittered | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crown | nmod |
| 7 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 stars | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stars | det |
| 10 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 glittered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 heaven | case |
| 12 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stars | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 formed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 formed | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 formed | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 formed | aux:pass |
| 18 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 glittered | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thousands | case |
| 20 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 formed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wings | case |
| 22 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wings | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 butterflies | case |
| 24 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thousands | nmod |
| 25 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 wings | acl |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 sewn | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | past | the golden crown on princess's head | like the stars of heaven | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | past · passive | princess's mantle | of thousands of butterflies's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sew | participle | butterflies's wings not said here | together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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