Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 123

The beams glided down the white walls of a neighbor's house, and close by the fresh yellow flowers were growing, shining like gold in the warm sun-rays.

Who acts: beams, fresh yellow flowers · What happens: glide, grow, shine · To what, where: white walls, warm sun rays

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beams, fresh yellow flowers), 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 beams	det
2	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 glided	nsubj
3	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	7 walls	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 walls	amod
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 glided	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 neighbor	det
10	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 neighbor	case
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walls	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 close	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 close	cc
15	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 glided	parataxis
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 growing	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flowers	amod
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flowers	amod
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 growing	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 growing	aux
22	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 close	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shining	punct
24	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 growing	conj
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 gold	case
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shining	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	32 rays	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rays	det
29	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rays	amod
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rays	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 sun	punct
32	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shining	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 glided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	glide	past	the beams	the white walls of a neighbor's house		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down wall=Trajectory
2	grow	past · progressive	the fresh yellow flowers			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shine	gerund	the fresh yellow flowers not said here	the warm sun rays	like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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