Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 3

Fiercely shines the sun over those deep valleys, as well as upon the heavy masses of snow which lie on the mountains.

Who acts: heavy masses · What happens: shine, lie · To what, where: sun, deep valleys, mountains

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavy masses), 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	Fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	2 shines	advmod
2	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shines	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 valleys	case
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 valleys	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 valleys	amod
8	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shines	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 masses	punct
10	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	16 masses	cc
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 as	fixed
12	as	as	ADP	_	10 as	fixed
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 masses	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 masses	det
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 masses	amod
16	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 valleys	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 snow	case
18	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 masses	nmod
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lie	nsubj
20	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 masses	acl:relcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 mountains	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mountains	det
23	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lie	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shines	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present		the sun		that deep valleys upon the heavy masses of snow		fiercely property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sun=Theme
2	lie	present	the heavy masses of snow			the mountains			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location

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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