Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 137
Gold! gold!' he shouted, again holding the glass aloft, that it might flash in the sunshine; but his hand trembled, and the alchymic glass fell from it, clattering to the ground, and brake in a thousand pieces.
Who acts: Gold gold, gold, hand, alchymic glass · What happens: shout, hold, flash, tremble, fall, clatter · To what, where: glass, sunshine, brake, hand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gold gold, gold, hand, alchymic glass), 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 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gold | compound |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gold | punct |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 gold | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 gold | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shouted | nsubj |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 holding | punct |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 holding | advmod |
| 10 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 shouted | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 glass | det |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holding | obj |
| 13 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 holding | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flash | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 flash | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 flash | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 flash | aux |
| 18 | flash | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 holding | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sunshine | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sunshine | det |
| 21 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flash | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 trembled | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 trembled | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 trembled | nsubj |
| 26 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shouted | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fell | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 glass | det |
| 30 | alchymic | alchymic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 glass | amod |
| 31 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fell | nsubj |
| 32 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 trembled | conj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fell | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 clattering | punct |
| 36 | clattering | clatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 fell | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 ground | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ground | det |
| 39 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 clattering | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 brake | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 brake | cc |
| 42 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 trembled | obl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 pieces | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 thousand | det |
| 45 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 pieces | nummod |
| 46 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 brake | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | Gold gold | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Gold gold not said here | the glass | again | aloft property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme | ||
| 3 | flash | might | gold | the sunshine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location | ||||
| 4 | tremble | past | fire's hand | brake in thousand pieces | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | the alchymic glass | hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | clatter | gerund | the alchymic glass not said here | to the ground | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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