Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 56
They were of the most singular shapes, and glittered like diamonds.
Who acts: icebergs · What happens: be, glitter · To what, where: singular shapes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (icebergs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shapes | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shapes | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 shapes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shapes | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 singular | advmod |
| 6 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shapes | amod |
| 7 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 glittered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 glittered | cc |
| 10 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shapes | acl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 diamonds | case |
| 12 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 glittered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shapes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | icebergs = iceberg | of the singular shapes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glitter | participle | the singular shapes not said here | like diamonds | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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