Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 4

The turtle-dove flew among the branches of the tall trees, and as the sunbeams fell upon her wings, they glistened as if they were mother-of-pearl.

Who acts: turtle dove, sunbeams · What happens: fly, fall, glisten, be · To what, where: branches, wings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turtle dove, sunbeams), 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	4 dove	det
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dove	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 turtle	punct
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 branches	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 branches	det
8	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flew	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
11	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	amod
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 branches	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 glistened	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 glistened	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 fell	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sunbeams	det
17	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 glistened	advcl
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 wings	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wings	nmod:poss
21	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 glistened	nsubj
24	glistened	glisten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 pearl	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 pearl	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pearl	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 pearl	cop
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pearl	nsubj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 pearl	punct
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 pearl	case
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 of	punct
33	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glistened	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the turtle dove	the branches of the tall trees		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among branch=Location
2	fall	past	the sunbeams	dove's wings		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon wing=Location
3	glisten	past	sunbeams = sunbeam			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	sunbeams = sunbeam		of pearl	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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