Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 119
Her countenance glowed, and her eyes were like two stars.
Who acts: countenance, eyes · What happens: glow, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countenance, eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glowed | nsubj |
| 3 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stars | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stars | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stars | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stars | cop |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 stars | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 stars | nummod |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glowed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | past | girl's countenance | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | girl's eyes | like two stars | 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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