Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 24

There were ropes of pearls, white as milk, and smooth as satin; heaps of shining rubies, red as the glowing coals; sap-phires as blue as the sky that summer day; and di-a-monds that flashed and sparkled like the sunlight.

Who acts: ropes, that, di, monds · What happens: be, shine, glow, day, mond, flash

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ropes, that, di, monds), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 pearls	case
5	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ropes	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 white	punct
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pearls	amod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 milk	case
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 white	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smooth	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 smooth	cc
12	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	conj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 satin	case
14	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smooth	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 heaps	punct
16	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 rubies	case
18	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 rubies	amod
19	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heaps	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 red	punct
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heaps	conj
22	as	as	ADP	_	25 coals	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 coals	det
24	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 coals	amod
25	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 red	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 phires	punct
27	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 phires	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 sap	punct
29	phires	phire	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heaps	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 blue	case
31	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 phires	nmod
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 sky	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sky	det
34	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 phires	nmod
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 day	nsubj
36	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 day	compound
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sky	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 monds	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 monds	cc
40	di	di	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 monds	nsubj
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 monds	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 monds	det
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 a	punct
44	monds	mond	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
45	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 flashed	nsubj
46	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 monds	acl:relcl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sparkled	cc
48	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 flashed	conj
49	like	like	ADP	_	51 sunlight	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 sunlight	det
51	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sparkled	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	ropes of pearls	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shine	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	glow	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	day		that			tree rules
5	mond		di			tree rules
6	flash	past	a monds			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sparkle	participle	a monds not said here		like the sunlight	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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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