Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 8
The Christian priest held the cross aloft, and it glittered like gold, while from his lips sounded pious prayers.
Who acts: Christian priest, priest, lips · What happens: hold, glitter, sound · To what, where: cross, pious prayers
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: who acts (Christian priest, priest, lips), 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 priest | det |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 priest | amod |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cross | det |
| 6 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 7 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cross | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 glittered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glittered | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 glittered | nsubj |
| 11 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | parataxis |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glittered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sounded | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 sounded | mark |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 lips | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lips | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sounded | nsubj |
| 19 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 glittered | conj |
| 20 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 prayers | amod |
| 21 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sounded | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the Christian priest | the cross | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glitter | past | priest | like gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sound | past | perfume's lips | pious prayers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prayer=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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