Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 18
It seemed to glow with the color of life; the armor glittered like iron and steel.
Who acts: It, armor · What happens: seem, glow, glitter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, armor), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 glow | mark |
| 4 | glow | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 color | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 color | det |
| 7 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glow | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 color | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 glittered | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 armor | det |
| 12 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glittered | nsubj |
| 13 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seemed | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 iron | case |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glittered | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 steel | cc |
| 17 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 iron | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | glow | to-infinitive | with the color of life | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with color=Theme | |||||
| 3 | glitter | participle | the armor | like iron and steel | 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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