The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 7

Now one day it seemed to her that the sky opened above her, and a great shower of shining gold fell through the window in the roof, and lay glittering in her room.

Who acts: it, sky, great shower · What happens: seem, open, shine, fall, lie, glitter · To what, where: Princess, gold, window, room

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, sky, great shower), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 seemed	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	obl:unmarked
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seemed	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 opened	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	nsubj
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	advcl
12	above	above	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 opened	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shower	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shower	amod
18	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	nsubj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 shining	mark
20	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 shower	acl
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shining	obj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	conj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 window	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 window	det
25	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 roof	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roof	det
28	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lay	cc
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	advcl
32	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 lay	xcomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 room	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 room	nmod:poss
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 glittering	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it		Princess		now; day		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	open	past	the sky					above Princess	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above she=Location
3	shine	gerund	a great shower not said here	gold					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
4	fall	past	a great shower			the window		in the roof	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through window=Location
5	lie	past							tree rules
6	glitter	gerund				Princess's room			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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