Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 12
A count's coronet sparkles above it, and therefore he did not speak it out.
Who acts: coronet, turf · What happens: sparkle, not speak out · To what, where: count, coronet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coronet, turf), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 count | det |
| 2 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coronet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 count | case |
| 4 | coronet | coronet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sparkles | nsubj |
| 5 | sparkles | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sparkles | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 speak | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 speak | cc |
| 10 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 speak | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 speak | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 speak | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 speak | advmod |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sparkles | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 speak | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 speak | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sparkles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | present | a count's coronet | count | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above it=Location | ||||
| 2 | not speak out speech: other | past · do-support | turf | coronet | therefore property | 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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