Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 87

The evening sun shone upon the brilliant stones; they glittered and sparkled with all colours so beautifully that the children stood still and stared at them.

Who acts: evening sun, girls, children · What happens: shine, glitter, sparkle, stand, stare · To what, where: brilliant stones

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening sun, girls, children), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	nsubj
4	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 stones	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stones	det
7	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stones	amod
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shone	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 glittered	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 glittered	nsubj
11	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shone	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sparkled	cc
13	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 glittered	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 colours	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 colours	det
16	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sparkled	obl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 beautifully	advmod
18	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	11 glittered	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 stood	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 children	det
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 glittered	advcl
23	still	still	ADV	_	22 stood	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stared	cc
25	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stood	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stared	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	participle	the evening sun	the brilliant stones			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stone=Location
2	glitter	past	girls = girl			beautifully property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sparkle	participle	girls = girl not said here			with all colours	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with colour=Theme
4	stand	past	the children		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stare	past	the children not said here			at girls = girl	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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