Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 26
Each leaf was fresh, and each flower was like a beautiful female head; some with dark and sparkling eyes, and others with eyes that were wonderfully blue and clear.
Who acts: leaf, flower, others · What happens: be, sparkle · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, flower, others), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 leaf | det |
| 2 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fresh | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fresh | cop |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 head | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 head | cc |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 flower | det |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 head | cop |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 head | amod |
| 13 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 head | amod |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fresh | parataxis |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 dark | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 dark | nsubj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 dark | case |
| 18 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fresh | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sparkling | cc |
| 20 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 dark | conj |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sparkling | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 blue | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 blue | cc |
| 24 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 blue | nsubj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 blue | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 blue | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 blue | cop |
| 29 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 30 blue | advmod |
| 30 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fresh | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 clear | cc |
| 32 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 blue | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | each leaf | fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | each flower | like a beautiful female head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sparkle | gerund | each leaf not said here | eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | others | with eyes; blue, wonderfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | others not said here | 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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