Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 8
A man, with a glittering star on his breast, gave her his arm, and people said the two were engaged to be married.
Who acts: man, people · What happens: glitter, give, say, engage, marry · To what, where: arm, audience, two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, people), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 star | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 star | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 star | det |
| 6 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 star | amod |
| 7 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 breast | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 breast | nmod:poss |
| 10 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 star | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arm | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gave | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 two | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 engaged | aux:pass |
| 23 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 married | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 married | aux:pass |
| 26 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 engaged | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | give | past | a man | man's arm | audience | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient arm=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | engage | past · passive | the two | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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