Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 55
She saw a glittering portal open, that led to a little garden, where all was brightness and dance music.
Who acts: moon, glittering portal · What happens: see, glitter, lead, be · To what, where: glittering portal, brightness
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, glittering portal), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 portal | det |
| 4 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 portal | amod |
| 5 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 portal | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 portal | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 garden | amod |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 music | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 music | advmod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 brightness | det |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brightness | cop |
| 18 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 music | compound |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dance | cc |
| 20 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brightness | conj |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 garden | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | moon | a glittering portal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | lead | past | a glittering portal | to a little garden | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to garden=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | all brightness and dance | 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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