Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 71

Innumerable fishes, great and small, swam past the crystal walls; on some of them the scales glowed with a purple brilliancy, and on others they shone like silver and gold.

Who acts: Innumerable fishes, walls · What happens: swim, glow, shine · To what, where: crystal walls, scales, others

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 (Innumerable fishes, walls), 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	Innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fishes	amod
2	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swam	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 great	punct
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fishes	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 small	cc
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 great	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fishes	punct
8	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	past	past	ADP	_	12 walls	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
11	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walls	compound
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swam	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 them	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 them	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 them	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swam	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 scales	det
19	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 them	parataxis
20	glowed	glow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 scales	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 brilliancy	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 brilliancy	det
23	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 brilliancy	amod
24	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 glowed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shone	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shone	cc
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 others	case
28	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shone	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shone	nsubj
30	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 swam	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 silver	case
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shone	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gold	cc
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 silver	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	Innumerable fishes		the crystal walls		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past wall=Trajectory
2	glow	participle		the scales not said here		with a purple brilliancy	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with brilliancy=Theme
3	shine	past	walls = wall		others	like silver and gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on other=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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