Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 46
Two frogs were sitting on the linen, and their bright eyes actually glistened with pleasure.
Who acts: Two frogs, bright eyes · What happens: sit, glisten · To what, where: linen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two frogs, bright eyes), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 frogs | nummod |
| 2 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 linen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 linen | det |
| 7 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 glistened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glistened | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 glistened | nsubj |
| 13 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 14 glistened | advmod |
| 14 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 pleasure | case |
| 16 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glistened | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | Two frogs | the linen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on linen=Location | ||||
| 2 | glisten | participle | frogs's bright eyes | with pleasure; actually property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pleasure=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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