Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 64
Not a single glow-worm glittered in the moss.
What happens: glitter · To what, where: single glow worm, moss
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 worm | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 worm | det |
| 3 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 worm | amod |
| 4 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worm | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 glow | punct |
| 6 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 worm | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 moss | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moss | det |
| 10 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glittered | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 worm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | participle | a single glow worm not said here | the moss | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moss=Location |
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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