Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 4
Her hot tears glittered like pearls on the regal velvet and diamonds, while all who saw her were wishing they could be queens.
Who acts: hot tears, tears · What happens: glitter, see, wish, be · To what, where: hot tears, regal velvet, Eliza, queens
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (hot tears, tears), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tears | amod |
| 3 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wishing | nsubj |
| 4 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tears | acl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 pearls | case |
| 6 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glittered | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 velvet | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 velvet | det |
| 9 | regal | regal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 velvet | amod |
| 10 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glittered | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 diamonds | cc |
| 12 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 velvet | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 all | mark |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 tears | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 all | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wishing | aux |
| 20 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 queens | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 queens | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 queens | cop |
| 24 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wishing | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 wishing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | participle | Eliza's hot tears not said here | the regal velvet and diamonds | like pearls | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on velvet=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | Eliza | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | wish | past · progressive | Eliza's hot tears | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a | could | tears = tear | queens | tree rules |
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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