Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 27
The roof was covered with chips, bound together with tin plates, that glittered in sunshine and in the moonlight.
Who acts: tin plates · What happens: cover, bind, glitter · To what, where: roof, sunshine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tin plates), 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 roof | det |
| 2 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | aux:pass |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 chips | case |
| 6 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bound | punct |
| 8 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 covered | conj |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 bound | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 plates | case |
| 11 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plates | compound |
| 12 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bound | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glittered | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 glittered | nsubj |
| 15 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 plates | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sunshine | case |
| 17 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glittered | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 moonlight | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 moonlight | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moonlight | det |
| 21 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sunshine | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the roof | with chips | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with chip=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bind | participle | with tin plates; together property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with plate=Co-Patient | |||||
| 3 | glitter | past | tin plates | sunshine and the moonlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |
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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