More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 127

And on the water in front of them was a wide glistening path running straight out towards a beautiful thing that rose out of the water and went up into the sky, and was all the colours in the world, blue and red and green, and wonderful to look at.

Who acts: wide glistening path, beautiful thing · What happens: glisten, be, run, rise, go up, look · To what, where: wide glistening path, water, beautiful thing, sky, colours, world

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wide glistening path, beautiful thing), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 path	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 water	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 path	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 front	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 path	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 path	det
11	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 path	amod
12	glistening	glisten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 path	amod
13	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 path	acl
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 out	advmod
16	out	out	ADV	_	14 running	advmod
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 thing	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 thing	det
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 running	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 rose	nsubj
22	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thing	acl:relcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 water	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rose	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rose	conj
29	up	up	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 sky	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sky	det
32	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 colours	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 colours	cc
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 colours	cop
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 colours	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 colours	det
38	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rose	parataxis
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 colours	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 blue	punct
43	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 colours	parataxis
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 red	cc
45	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 blue	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 green	cc
47	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 blue	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 wonderful	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 wonderful	cc
50	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 blue	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 look	mark
52	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 wonderful	advcl
53	at	at	ADP	_	52 look	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 path	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glisten	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		a wide glistening path	the water in front of bones		tree rules
3	run	gerund	a wide glistening path not said here		a beautiful thing	out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards thing=Destination
4	rise	past	a beautiful thing		the water		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location
5	go up	past	a beautiful thing not said here		the sky		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	is a	past		all colours	the world		tree rules
7	look	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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