Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 58
At length a sunbeam glided over the lake, and it shone like burnished silver.
Who acts: sunbeam · What happens: glide, shine, burnish · To what, where: sunbeam, lake, length
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunbeam), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shone | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sunbeam | det |
| 4 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | obj |
| 5 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sunbeam | acl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glided | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shone | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shone | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shone | nsubj |
| 12 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 14 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 silver | amod |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shone | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | participle | a sunbeam not said here | the lake | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lake=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | shine | past | sunbeam | length | like burnished silver | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 3 | burnish | participle | 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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