Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 16

The stars shone in the sky above him, and down in the valley lights glittered like stars, as if another sky were beneath him; but his head was dizzy and his feet stumbled, and he felt ill.

Who acts: stars, valley lights, sky, head, feet, snow · What happens: shine, glitter, be, stumble, feel · To what, where: sky

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, valley lights, sky, head), 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 stars	det
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sky	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	obl
7	above	above	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 glittered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 glittered	cc
11	down	down	ADV	_	16 glittered	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 lights	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lights	det
14	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lights	compound
15	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 glittered	nsubj
16	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 stars	case
18	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 glittered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 him	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 him	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 him	mark
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 sky	det
23	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 him	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 him	cop
25	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 glittered	parataxis
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 dizzy	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 dizzy	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dizzy	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dizzy	cop
32	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shone	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stumbled	cc
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 feet	nmod:poss
35	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stumbled	nsubj
36	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dizzy	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 felt	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 felt	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 felt	nsubj
40	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
41	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 felt	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the stars	the sky	above snow	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location
2	glitter	past	the valley lights		like stars; down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	another sky		beneath snow	tree rules
4	is	past	snow's head		dizzy property	tree rules
5	stumble	past	snow's feet			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	feel	past	snow		ill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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