Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 4
The golden crescent on their foreheads, fastened with golden knots, glittered in the moonlight, and their mantles floated in the wind.
What happens: fasten, glitter, float · To what, where: foreheads, golden knots, moonlight, mantles, wind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 crescent | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crescent | amod |
| 3 | crescent | crescent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 foreheads | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 foreheads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | foreheads | forehead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crescent | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fastened | punct |
| 8 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 foreheads | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 knots | case |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knots | amod |
| 11 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fastened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glittered | punct |
| 13 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 knots | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 moonlight | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moonlight | det |
| 16 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glittered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mantles | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mantles | cc |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mantles | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mantles | mantle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crescent | conj |
| 21 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 mantles | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 wind | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wind | det |
| 24 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 floated | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crescent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | participle | crescent's foreheads not said here | with golden knots | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with knot=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | glitter | participle | golden knots not said here | the moonlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location | ||||
| 3 | float | participle | knots's mantles not said here | the wind | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Trajectory |
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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