Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 102

But after a while the rain began to fall gently, the sun's rays pierced the clouds, and the water-drops glittered like pearls on leaf and stem.

Who acts: rain, rays, sun · What happens: begin, fall, pierce, glitter, ray · To what, where: clouds, water drops, leaf

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, rays, sun), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 while	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 while	det
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fall	mark
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	gently	gently	ADV	_	9 fall	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pierced	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rays	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 sun	case
15	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pierced	nsubj
16	pierced	pierce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 clouds	det
18	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pierced	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 glittered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 glittered	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 drops	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drops	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 water	punct
24	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 glittered	nsubj:pass
25	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 began	conj
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 pearls	case
27	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 glittered	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 leaf	case
29	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 glittered	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stem	cc
31	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leaf	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the rain			while		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fall	to-infinitive	the rain not said here				gently property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pierce	past	the sun's rays	the clouds				vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient
4	glitter	participle · passive		the water drops	leaf and stem		like pearls	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	ray		the sun					nom ray «phenomenon 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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