Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 119
His eyes gleamed, and his hair gleamed too--there was no denying that!
Who acts: eyes, hair · What happens: gleam, be · To what, where: hair, denying
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 (eyes, hair), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gleamed | nsubj |
| 3 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 denying | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 denying | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 denying | nsubj |
| 8 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hair | acl |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 gleamed | advmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 denying | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 denying | det |
| 14 | denying | denying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gleamed | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 denying | dep |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 gleamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | past | I.'s eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | gleam | participle | I.'s hair not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | I.'s hair | no denying | 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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