Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 101
"'I saw the Turkish angel myself," said one; "he had eyes like glittering stars, and a head like foaming water."
Who acts: I, one, angel, head · What happens: see, say, have, glitter, foam · To what, where: Turkish angel, eyes, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, angel, head), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 angel | det |
| 6 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 angel | amod |
| 7 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 angel | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 stars | case |
| 19 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 stars | amod |
| 20 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eyes | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 head | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 head | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 head | det |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | conj |
| 25 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 26 foaming | mark |
| 26 | foaming | foam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 head | acl |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 foaming | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | I | the Turkish angel myself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | angel | eyes | like glittering stars | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 4 | glitter in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | foam in a quote | gerund | a head not said here | water | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=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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