Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 7

The stick was lifted high in the air, and swung up and down till it jingled again, and quite dazzled one's eyes when the sun shone on all its glory of gold, and silver, and brass.

Who acts: air, sun, gold · What happens: lift, swing up, jingle, dazzle, shine, glory · To what, where: stick, one, glory

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, sun, gold), 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 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	aux:pass
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lifted	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 high	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 swung	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swung	cc
11	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 swung	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 down	cc
14	down	down	ADV	_	12 up	conj
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 jingled	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 jingled	nsubj
17	jingled	jingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 swung	advcl
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 jingled	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dazzled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dazzled	cc
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 dazzled	advmod
22	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lifted	conj
23	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dazzled	obj
24	's	's	PART	_	23 one	case
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	conj
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 shone	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun	det
28	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shone	nsubj
29	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 dazzled	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 glory	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 glory	det:predet
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 glory	nmod:poss
33	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shone	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 gold	case
35	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 glory	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 silver	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 silver	cc
38	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 brass	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 brass	cc
41	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past · passive		the stick			high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	swing up	past						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	jingle	past	air			again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dazzle	participle		one				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer
5	shine	participle	the sun		sun's glory of gold			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on glory=Location
6	glory		gold					nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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