Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 52

He knew not; but the walls of ice shone like blue-green glass; innumerable clefts yawned around him, and the water-drops tinkled like the chiming of church bells, and shone clearly as pearls in the light of a pale-blue flame.

Who acts: Maiden, innumerable clefts · What happens: not know, shine, yawn, tinkle, chime, light · To what, where: walls, ice, water drops, light, blue flame

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden, innumerable clefts), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knew	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 walls	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 walls	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 ice	case
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walls	nmod
10	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ice	acl
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 glass	case
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 green	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 blue	punct
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 glass	amod
15	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shone	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 yawned	punct
17	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 clefts	amod
18	clefts	cleft	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 yawned	nsubj
19	yawned	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
20	around	around	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 yawned	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tinkled	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tinkled	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 drops	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drops	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 water	punct
27	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tinkled	nsubj:pass
28	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knew	conj
29	like	like	SCONJ	_	31 chiming	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chiming	det
31	chiming	chime	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 tinkled	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 bells	case
33	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bells	compound
34	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chiming	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shone	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 shone	cc
37	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
38	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	37 shone	advmod
39	as	as	ADP	_	40 pearls	case
40	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shone	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 light	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 light	det
43	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shone	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	49 flame	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 flame	det
46	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 blue	amod
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 pale	punct
48	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 flame	amod
49	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 light	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past	Maiden	the walls of ice			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	shine	participle		ice not said here		like green glass	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	yawn	past	innumerable clefts			around Maiden	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tinkle	participle · passive		the water drops			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	chime	gerund				of church bells	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shine	past			the light of a blue flame	as pearls; clearly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location
7	light			a blue flame			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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