Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 18

Over everything lay a peculiar blue radiance, as if it were surrounded by the air from above, through which the blue sky shone, instead of the dark depths of the sea.

Who acts: air, blue sky · What happens: lie, surround, shine · To what, where: peculiar blue radiance, everything, radiance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 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 (air, blue sky), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	2 everything	case
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 lay	obl
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 radiance	det
5	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 radiance	amod
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 radiance	amod
7	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 surrounded	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 surrounded	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 surrounded	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 surrounded	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 surrounded	aux:pass
13	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lay	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 surrounded	obl
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 above	case
18	above	above	ADV	_	13 surrounded	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shone	punct
20	through	through	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 shone	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sky	det
23	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sky	amod
24	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shone	nsubj
25	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 surrounded	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 depths	punct
27	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	31 depths	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 instead	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 depths	det
30	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 depths	amod
31	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 shone	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sea	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sea	det
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 depths	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a peculiar blue radiance	everything		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location radiance=Theme
2	surround a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	the air	radiance			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
3	shine	participle	the blue sky			instead the dark depths of the sea	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=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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