Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 34
Tears stood in his eyes, and glistened on his cheeks; he carried a great book and the binding was of velvet, with silver clasps. "
Who acts: Tears, child, binding · What happens: stand, glisten, carry, be · To what, where: eyes, cheeks, great book
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tears, child, binding), 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 | Tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 glistened | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 glistened | cc |
| 8 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stood | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 cheeks | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glistened | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | nsubj |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 book | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 book | amod |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 velvet | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 binding | det |
| 20 | binding | binding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 velvet | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 velvet | cop |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 velvet | case |
| 23 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 clasps | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 clasps | case |
| 26 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 clasps | compound |
| 27 | clasps | clasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carried | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Tears | child's eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eye=Location | ||||
| 2 | glisten | participle | Tears not said here | child's cheeks | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cheek=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | child | a great book | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the binding | of velvet | 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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