Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 35

And where the sun shone, how everything glittered and sparkled, as if diamond dust had been strewn about; while the snowy carpet of the earth appeared as if covered with diamonds, from which countless lights gleamed, whiter than even the snow itself.

Who acts: sun, everything, diamond dust, snowy carpet, countless lights · What happens: shine, glitter, sparkle, be, appear, cover

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, everything, diamond dust, snowy carpet), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 shone	cc
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 shone	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shone	nsubj
5	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 glittered	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 glittered	advmod
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 glittered	nsubj
9	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shone	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sparkled	cc
11	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 glittered	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 strewn	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 strewn	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 strewn	mark
15	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dust	compound
16	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 strewn	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 strewn	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 strewn	cop
19	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sparkled	conj
20	about	about	ADP	_	19 strewn	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 appeared	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 appeared	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 carpet	det
24	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 carpet	amod
25	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 appeared	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 earth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 earth	det
28	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carpet	nmod
29	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 glittered	conj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 covered	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 covered	mark
32	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 appeared	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 diamonds	case
34	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 covered	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 gleamed	punct
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 gleamed	obl
38	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 lights	amod
39	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 gleamed	nsubj
40	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 covered	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 whiter	punct
42	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 gleamed	conj
43	than	than	ADP	_	46 snow	case
44	even	even	ADV	_	46 snow	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 snow	det
46	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 whiter	obl
47	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	46 snow	nmod:unmarked
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	glitter	past	everything		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sparkle	past	everything not said here		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	diamond dust	strewn property	tree rules
5	appear	past	the snowy carpet of the earth		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cover	participle	the snowy carpet of the earth not said here	with diamonds	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=Theme
7	gleam	past	countless lights		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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