Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 97

The setting sun was shining upon the brilliant stones, and their changing hues and sparkling rays caused the children to pause to admire them also.

Who acts: setting sun, changing hues, children · What happens: shine, sparkle, cause, pause, admire · To what, where: brilliant stones, children, maidens

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (setting sun, changing hues, children), 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 sun	det
2	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shining	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shining	aux
5	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 stones	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stones	det
8	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stones	amod
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shining	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 caused	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 caused	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hues	nmod:poss
13	changing	changing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hues	compound
14	hues	hue	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 caused	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rays	cc
16	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 rays	amod
17	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hues	conj
18	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shining	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 caused	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 pause	mark
22	pause	pause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 caused	xcomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 admire	mark
24	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pause	xcomp
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 admire	obj
26	also	also	ADV	_	24 admire	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	the setting sun		the brilliant stones	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stone=Location
2	sparkle	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cause	past	maidens's changing hues and sparkling rays	the children		tree rules
4	pause	to-infinitive	the children not said here			tree rules
5	admire	to-infinitive	the children not said here	maidens = maiden		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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