Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 42
The angel seized it: the pearl glittered like a star with seven-fold radiance.
Who acts: angel · What happens: seize, glitter · To what, where: 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 (angel), 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 angel | det |
| 2 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 pearl | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pearl | det |
| 7 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 8 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pearl | acl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 star | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 star | det |
| 11 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glittered | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 radiance | case |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 fold | nummod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 seven | punct |
| 15 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 radiance | compound |
| 16 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glittered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the angel | sunbeam | the pearl obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | glitter | participle | the pearl not said here | like a star; with fold radiance | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with radiance=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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