Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 19
The yellow centre in the daisy did indeed look like gold, while the little petals shone as brightly as silver.
Who acts: yellow centre · What happens: look, shine · To what, where: little petals
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yellow centre), 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 centre | det |
| 2 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 centre | amod |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 daisy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daisy | det |
| 6 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | aux |
| 8 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 9 look | advmod |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shone | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 shone | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 petals | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 petals | amod |
| 16 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 look | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 brightly | advmod |
| 19 | brightly | brightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shone | xcomp |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 silver | case |
| 21 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brightly | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | the yellow centre in the daisy | like gold; indeed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shine | participle · passive | the little petals | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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