Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 76
Its top glittered in the evening rays like molten gold, and it seemed as if the light came from within it; for long after the sun had sunk beneath the horizon, the mountain-top would glow in the clear, blue sky.
Who acts: top, it, light, mountain top · What happens: glitter, seem, come, sink, glow · To what, where: evening rays, tint, sun, clear blue sky
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 (top, it, light, mountain top), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 top | nmod:poss |
| 2 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glittered | nsubj |
| 3 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rays | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rays | det |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rays | compound |
| 7 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glittered | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 9 | molten | molten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gold | amod |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rays | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glittered | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seemed | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 21 | within | within | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 long | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 long | case |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 glittered | advmod |
| 26 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 30 sunk | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sun | det |
| 28 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sunk | aux |
| 30 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 long | advcl |
| 31 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 33 horizon | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 horizon | det |
| 33 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sunk | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 glow | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 top | det |
| 36 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 top | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 mountain | punct |
| 38 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 glow | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 glow | aux |
| 40 | glow | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 glittered | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 sky | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 sky | det |
| 43 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sky | amod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 clear | punct |
| 45 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sky | amod |
| 46 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 glow | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | participle | tint's top | the evening rays like molten gold | long property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location | |||
| 2 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the light | tint | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sink | past · perfect · passive | the sun | beneath the horizon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | glow | would | the mountain top | the clear blue sky | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=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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