Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 41
A hot tear rolled into her lap, and formed itself into a pearl, glowing with all the colors of the rainbow.
Who acts: hot tear · What happens: roll, form, glow · To what, where: lap, sunbeam, pearl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hot tear), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tear | det |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tear | amod |
| 3 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolled | nsubj |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 lap | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lap | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 formed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 formed | cc |
| 10 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rolled | conj |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 formed | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 pearl | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pearl | det |
| 14 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 formed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glowing | punct |
| 16 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 formed | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 colors | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 colors | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 colors | det |
| 20 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glowing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rainbow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rainbow | det |
| 23 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 colors | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | a hot tear | fairy's lap | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into lap=Destination | ||||
| 2 | form | past | a hot tear not said here | sunbeam | a pearl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Theme | |||
| 3 | glow | gerund | a hot tear not said here | with all colors of the rainbow | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with color=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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