Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 97

And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all sizes, the greatest as large as the highest and biggest tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rushlight.

What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 large	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 side	det
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 large	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 rows	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rows	nmod:poss
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rows	cop
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 rows	nummod
9	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 side	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 lights	case
11	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lights	compound
12	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rows	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sizes	punct
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sizes	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sizes	det
16	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lights	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 side	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 greatest	det
19	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 large	nsubj
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 large	advmod
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	as	as	ADP	_	27 tower	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tower	det
24	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 tower	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 biggest	cc
26	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 tower	amod
27	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 large	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tower	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 larger	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 larger	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 least	det
34	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 larger	nsubj
35	no	no	ADV	_	36 larger	advmod
36	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 large	conj
37	than	than	ADP	_	40 rushlight	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 rushlight	det
39	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 rushlight	amod
40	rushlight	rushlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 larger	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						of Ilsabill's two rows; of burning lights and all sizes	tree rules

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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