Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 74

As the sun shone on his hair it glittered and flashed so that the rays fell into the bedroom of the king’s daughter, and up she sprang to see what that could be.

Who acts: air, rays, iron, that · What happens: shine, glitter, flash, fall, spring, see · To what, where: sun, hair, bedroom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, rays, iron, that), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 sun	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sprang	obl
4	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sun	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hair	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 glittered	nsubj
9	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hair	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flashed	cc
11	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 glittered	conj
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 fell	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rays	det
15	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flashed	advcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 bedroom	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bedroom	det
19	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 daughter	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 daughter	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 king	case
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bedroom	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sprang	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sprang	cc
27	up	up	ADV	_	29 sprang	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sprang	nsubj
29	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sprang	xcomp
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 be	obj
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 be	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 be	aux
35	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 see	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	participle		the sun not said here	boy's hair		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hair=Location
2	glitter	past	air	boy's hair not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
3	flash	past	air not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	the rays			into the bedroom of the king's daughter result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into bedroom=Result
5	spring	past	iron			as the sun	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	iron not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	can	could	that				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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: «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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