Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 104
He was as brown as a wild man, and his eyes were bright, and his face beamed like sunshine.
Who acts: dog, eyes, face · What happens: be, beam
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, eyes, face), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brown | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brown | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 brown | advmod |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brown | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bright | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bright | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bright | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bright | cop |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brown | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beamed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beamed | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beamed | nsubj |
| 19 | beamed | beam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brown | conj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 sunshine | case |
| 21 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beamed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dog | as a wild man; brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | dog's eyes | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | beam | participle | dog's face | like sunshine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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