Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 41

The light of hundreds of glow-worms shone amidst the grass and the moss, like green fire; and if she touched a twig with her hand, ever so lightly, the brilliant insects fell down around her, like shooting-stars.

Who acts: light, brilliant insects · What happens: shine, touch, fall down, light · To what, where: twig, hundreds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, brilliant insects), 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 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shone	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hundreds	case
4	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 light	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 worms	case
6	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worms	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 glow	punct
8	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hundreds	nmod
9	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	12 grass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grass	det
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shone	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 moss	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moss	det
15	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grass	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fire	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fire	amod
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shone	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 touched	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 touched	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 touched	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 touched	nsubj
24	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shone	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 twig	det
26	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 touched	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 touched	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ever	punct
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 touched	advmod
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 lightly	advmod
33	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	24 touched	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fell	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 insects	det
36	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 insects	amod
37	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fell	nsubj
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shone	conj
39	down	down	ADV	_	38 fell	advmod
40	around	around	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fell	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 stars	punct
43	like	like	ADP	_	46 stars	case
44	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stars	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 shooting	punct
46	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fell	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the light of hundreds of glow worms			amidst the grass and the moss; like green fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	touch a condition, not said to happen	past	light	a twig	ever	with light's hand; lightly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent twig=Experiencer with hand=Instrument
3	fall down	past	the brilliant insects			around light; like shooting stars; down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around she=Location
4	light			hundreds of glow worms			nom light «phenomenon 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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