Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 40

In the centre of the largest saloon a fountain threw its sparkling jets high up into the glass cupola of the ceiling, through which the sun shone down upon the water and upon the beautiful plants growing round the basin of the fountain.

Who acts: fountain, sun, beautiful plants · What happens: throw, shine down, grow · To what, where: sparkling jets, centre

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fountain, sun, beautiful plants), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 centre	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 centre	det
3	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 saloon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 saloon	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 saloon	amod
7	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 centre	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fountain	det
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	nsubj
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 jets	nmod:poss
12	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jets	amod
13	jets	jet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 threw	obj
14	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 up	advmod
15	up	up	ADV	_	10 threw	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 cupola	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cupola	det
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cupola	compound
19	cupola	cupola	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 ceiling	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ceiling	det
22	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cupola	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shone	punct
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 shone	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sun	det
27	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shone	nsubj
28	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 threw	conj
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 shone	advmod
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shone	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 plants	cc
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 plants	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 plants	det
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 plants	amod
37	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 water	conj
38	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 plants	acl
39	round	round	ADP	_	41 basin	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 basin	det
41	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 growing	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 fountain	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 fountain	det
44	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 basin	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	a fountain	fountain's sparkling jets	the centre of the largest saloon	into the glass cupola of the ceiling result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer jet=Theme into cupola=Result
2	shine down	past	the sun			upon the water and the beautiful plants; down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Location
3	grow	gerund	the beautiful plants not said here			round the basin of the fountain	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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