Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 46
The sun shone warmly, and the snow sparkled as if covered with glittering diamonds.
Who acts: sun, snow · What happens: shine, sparkle, cover
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, snow), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 3 shone | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sparkled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sparkled | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snow | det |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sparkled | nsubj |
| 9 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shone | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 covered | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 covered | mark |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sparkled | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 diamonds | case |
| 14 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 diamonds | compound |
| 15 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 covered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | warmly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | participle | the snow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cover a condition, not said to happen | participle | the snow not said here | with glittering diamonds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=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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