Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 13

The moon shone brilliantly, and the white pebbles which lay before the door seemed like silver pieces, they glittered so brightly.

Who acts: moon, white pebbles, pebbles · What happens: shine, lay, seem, glitter · To what, where: door

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, white pebbles, pebbles), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seemed	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pebbles	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pebbles	amod
9	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 seemed	nsubj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pebbles	acl:relcl
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	parataxis
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 pieces	case
17	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pieces	compound
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 seemed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 glittered	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 glittered	nsubj
21	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 brightly	advmod
23	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	21 glittered	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the moon		brilliantly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	present	the white pebbles	the door		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before door=Destination
3	seem	past	the white pebbles		like silver pieces	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	glitter	past	pebbles = pebble		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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