Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 10

Its ring was broad, and from its circumference the rays shot like whirling shafts of fire across the whole sky, flashing in changing radiance from green to red.

Who acts: ring, rays · What happens: be, shoot, whirl, flash, change · To what, where: circumference, shafts, whole sky, radiance, green

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, rays), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ring	nmod:poss
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broad	cop
4	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shot	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shot	cc
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 circumference	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 circumference	nmod:poss
9	circumference	circumference	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shot	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rays	det
11	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shot	nsubj
12	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broad	parataxis
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 whirling	mark
14	whirling	whirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 shot	advcl
15	shafts	shaft	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 whirling	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 fire	case
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shafts	nmod
18	across	across	ADP	_	21 sky	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sky	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sky	amod
21	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 whirling	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flashing	punct
23	flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 whirling	conj
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	25 changing	mark
25	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 flashing	advcl
26	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 changing	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 green	case
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 changing	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 red	case
30	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 changing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	light's ring			broad property	tree rules
2	shoot	past	the rays		light's circumference		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from circumference=Initial_Location
3	whirl	gerund	the rays not said here	shafts of fire	the whole sky		vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme across sky=Destination
4	flash	gerund	the rays not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	change	gerund	the rays not said here	radiance	green	to red	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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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