Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 40

The windows were very high up; the glass was red, blue, and green, and the sunlight shone through quite wondrously in all sorts of colors.

Who acts: windows, glass, sunlight · What happens: be, shine, sort · To what, where: sorts, colors

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 (windows, glass, sunlight), 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 windows	det
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 high	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 red	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 glass	det
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 red	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 red	cop
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 high	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blue	punct
13	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 red	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 green	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 green	cc
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 red	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shone	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shone	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sunlight	det
20	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shone	nsubj
21	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 high	conj
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 wondrously	case
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 wondrously	advmod
24	wondrously	wondrously	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 shone	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 sorts	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 sorts	det
27	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shone	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 colors	case
29	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sorts	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the windows			high property	tree rules
2	is	past	the glass			red property	tree rules
3	be		the glass not said here				tree rules
4	be		the glass not said here				tree rules
5	shine	participle	the sunlight		all sorts of colors		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wondrously=Location
6	sort			colors			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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