Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 28
The boy was dazzled by so much glitter; for the walls were gleaming with bright colors, all appeared living reality.
Who acts: much glitter · What happens: dazzle, gleam, appear, live · To what, where: boy, reality
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much glitter), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 4 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 glitter | case |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 glitter | amod |
| 8 | glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dazzled | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 gleaming | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 walls | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 walls | det |
| 12 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gleaming | obl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gleaming | aux |
| 14 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dazzled | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 colors | case |
| 16 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 colors | amod |
| 17 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gleaming | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 appeared | punct |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 appeared | advmod |
| 20 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gleaming | conj |
| 21 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 appeared | xcomp |
| 22 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 living | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dazzle | past · passive | much glitter | the boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | gleam | past · progressive | much glitter not said here | for the walls; with bright colors | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with color=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | much glitter not said here | all property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | live | gerund | much glitter not said here | reality | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme reality=Location |
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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