Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 54
Yes, certainly, she saw it yonder in the distance, it gleamed before her, and twinkled and glittered like the evening star in the sky.
Who acts: moon, work · What happens: see, gleam, twinkle, glitter · To what, where: work
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (moon, work), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 distance | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 distance | det |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gleamed | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gleamed | nsubj |
| 14 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | parataxis |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gleamed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 twinkled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 twinkled | cc |
| 19 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gleamed | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glittered | cc |
| 21 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 twinkled | conj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 star | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 star | det |
| 24 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 star | compound |
| 25 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glittered | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 sky | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sky | det |
| 28 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 star | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | moon | work | in the distance; certainly, yonder property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | gleam | past | work | before moon | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location | ||||
| 3 | twinkle | participle | work not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | glitter | participle | work not said here | like the evening star in the sky | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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