Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 145
The star of gold paper still stuck in the top of the tree and glittered in the sunshine.
What happens: glitter · To what, where: sunshine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 star | det |
| 2 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 paper | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paper | compound |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stuck | obl |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 stuck | advmod |
| 7 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stuck | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 glittered | cc |
| 15 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stuck | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sunshine | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sunshine | det |
| 18 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glittered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | participle | the sunshine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |
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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