Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 27
The fruit gleamed like stars, and the room was filled with sounds of beautiful music.
Who acts: fruit · What happens: gleam, fill · To what, where: fruit, room
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 (fruit), 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 fruit | det |
| 2 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fruit | acl |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 stars | case |
| 5 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gleamed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 filled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 filled | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 filled | aux:pass |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fruit | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sounds | case |
| 13 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 filled | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 music | case |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 music | amod |
| 16 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sounds | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fruit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | participle | the fruit not said here | like stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | the fruit not said here | the room | with sounds of beautiful music | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sound=Instrument |
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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