Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 2

Though the water was clear, the sun never looked down far enough into the well to mirror itself in the waters; but as far as its beams could reach, green things grew forth between the stones in the sides of the well.

Who acts: water, clear sun, beams, green things · What happens: be, not look down, reach, grow, beam · To what, where: stones

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, clear sun, beams, green things), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	5 clear	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clear	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clear	cop
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sun	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 clear	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 looked	advmod
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 looked	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 looked	advmod
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 well	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 well	det
16	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 mirror	mark
18	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 well	appos
19	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	18 mirror	nmod:unmarked
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 waters	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waters	det
22	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mirror	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 grew	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 grew	cc
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 far	advmod
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 grew	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 reach	mark
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 beams	nmod:poss
29	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 reach	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 reach	aux
31	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 far	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grew	punct
33	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 things	amod
34	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 grew	nsubj
35	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	conj
36	forth	forth	ADV	_	35 grew	advmod
37	between	between	ADP	_	39 stones	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stones	det
39	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 grew	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 sides	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sides	det
42	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 stones	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 well	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 well	det
45	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sides	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the water		clear property	tree rules
2	not look down	past	the clear sun		into the well; down, far property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into well=Theme
3	reach	could	water's beams			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	green things	the stones in the sides of the well	far, forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between stone=Location
5	beam		water			nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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