Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 54

Six earth-worms shone as well as they could.

What happens: shine · To what, where: Six earth worms

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 worms	nummod
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worms	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 earth	punct
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 worms	acl
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	5 shone	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 could	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 could	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shone	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worms	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	participle		Six earth worms not said here					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: «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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