Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 39

The windows were very high, and as the panes were red, blue, and yellow, the daylight shone through them in all sorts of singular colors.

Who acts: windows, panes · What happens: be, shine, sort · To what, where: daylight, sorts, singular colors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (windows, panes), 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	2 windows	det
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 high	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 yellow	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 yellow	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 red	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 panes	det
10	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 red	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 red	cop
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 yellow	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 blue	punct
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 red	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 yellow	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 yellow	cc
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 high	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 daylight	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 daylight	det
20	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 yellow	conj
21	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 daylight	acl
22	through	through	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 shone	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 sorts	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sorts	det
26	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shone	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 colors	case
28	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 colors	amod
29	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sorts	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the windows			high property	tree rules
2	is	past	the panes			red property	tree rules
3	be		the panes not said here				tree rules
4	shine	participle		the daylight not said here	all sorts of singular colors	through panes = pane	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Location
5	sort			singular colors			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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