The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 2
The golden star was still on its highest bough, and it glittered in the bright sunlight.
Who acts: golden star, star · What happens: be, glitter · To what, where: highest bough, bright sunlight
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden star, star), 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 star | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bough | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bough | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 bough | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bough | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bough | nmod:poss |
| 8 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 bough | amod |
| 9 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glittered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 glittered | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 glittered | nsubj |
| 13 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bough | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sunlight | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sunlight | det |
| 16 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sunlight | amod |
| 17 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glittered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the golden star | star's highest bough | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | glitter | past | star | star's highest bough not said here | the bright sunlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bough=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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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