Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 4
Their hair gleamed golden in the sunshine, lovely to behold; but the real sunshine was more beautiful still.
Who acts: real sunshine · What happens: gleam, be · To what, where: hair
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 (real sunshine), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hair | acl |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gleamed | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sunshine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sunshine | det |
| 7 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 golden | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lovely | punct |
| 9 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sunshine | amod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 behold | case |
| 11 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 9 lovely | discourse |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 beautiful | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sunshine | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sunshine | amod |
| 16 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beautiful | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beautiful | cop |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hair | conj |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | participle | canvas's hair not said here | golden property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the real sunshine | still | beautiful property | 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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