Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 9

It was a beautiful evening; the last rays of the setting sun shone bright through the long stems of the trees upon the green underwood beneath, and the turtle-doves sang from the tall birches.

Who acts: name, last rays, turtle doves · What happens: be, shine, sing, ray, stem · To what, where: beautiful evening, long stems, tall birches, setting sun, trees

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, last rays, turtle doves), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 evening	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 evening	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 evening	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evening	amod
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 evening	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rays	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rays	amod
9	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shone	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
12	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sun	compound
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rays	nmod
14	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 evening	parataxis
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shone	xcomp
16	through	through	ADP	_	19 stems	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stems	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stems	amod
19	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shone	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 trees	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trees	det
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stems	nmod
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 underwood	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 underwood	det
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 underwood	amod
26	underwood	underwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trees	nmod
27	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	26 underwood	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sang	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sang	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 doves	det
31	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 doves	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 turtle	punct
33	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sang	nsubj
34	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shone	conj
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 birches	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 birches	det
37	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 birches	amod
38	birches	birch	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sang	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 evening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	name	a beautiful evening			tree rules
2	shine	past	the last rays of the setting sun		the long stems of the trees upon the green underwood	bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through stem=Location
3	sing speech: express	past	the turtle doves		the tall birches		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ray			the setting sun			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
5	stem			the trees upon the green underwood			nom stem «communication 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: «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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