Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 32
Rudy gave but one glance into the water beneath; but in that one glance he saw a gold ring rolling, glittering, and sparkling before him.
Who acts: Rudy, gold ring · What happens: give, see, roll, glitter, sparkle · To what, where: one glance, water, gold ring
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, gold ring), 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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 glance | cc |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 glance | nummod |
| 5 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 9 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 2 gave | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 glance | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 glance | det |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 glance | nummod |
| 15 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ring | det |
| 19 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ring | amod |
| 20 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 21 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 ring | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 glittering | punct |
| 23 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 rolling | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sparkling | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sparkling | cc |
| 26 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 saw | conj |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sparkling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Rudy | one glance | the water | beneath property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glance=Theme | ||
| 2 | see | past | Rudy | a gold ring | that one glance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | roll | gerund | a gold ring not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | glitter | gerund | a gold ring not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sparkle | gerund | Rudy not said here | before Rudy | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=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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