Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 6

The guardian angel of the house leaned against the head of the bed; while over the child was spread, as it were, a net of shining stars, and each star was a pearl of happiness.

Who acts: guardian angel, angel, net, star · What happens: learn, spread, be, shine · To what, where: net, stars, 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 (guardian angel, angel, net, star), 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	3 angel	det
2	guardian	guardian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 angel	amod
3	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaned	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angel	nmod
7	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	against	against	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 head	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaned	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 bed	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bed	det
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 spread	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 spread	mark
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 child	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spread	obl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spread	aux:pass
20	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 leaned	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 net	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 net	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 net	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 net	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 net	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 net	det
27	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spread	obl
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 shining	mark
29	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 net	acl
30	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 shining	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pearl	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 pearl	cc
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 star	det
34	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pearl	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 pearl	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 pearl	det
37	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spread	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 happiness	case
39	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pearl	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 leaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	past	the guardian angel of the house		against the head of the bed	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spread	past · passive	the guardian angel of the house not said here		over the child	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: over child=Location
3	is a	past	angel	a net		tree rules
4	shine	gerund	a net not said here	stars		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=Theme
5	is a	past	each star	a pearl	of happiness	tree rules

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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