Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 99
A thousand gleaming spiders ran here and there on the walls, causing them to glitter as if they were illuminated with fire.
Who acts: thousand gleaming spiders, spiders · What happens: gleam, run, cause, glitter, illuminate · To what, where: walls, spiders
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 (thousand gleaming spiders, spiders), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thousand | det |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 spiders | nummod |
| 3 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 spiders | amod |
| 4 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ran | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 there | cc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 here | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 walls | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 walls | det |
| 11 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 causing | punct |
| 13 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ran | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 causing | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 glitter | mark |
| 16 | glitter | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 causing | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 illuminated | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 illuminated | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 illuminated | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 21 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 glitter | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 illuminated | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | run | past | thousand gleaming spiders | the walls; here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cause | gerund | thousand gleaming spiders not said here | spiders = spider | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glitter | to-infinitive | spiders = spider not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | illuminate | past · passive | spiders = spider | with fire | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fire=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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