The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 14

The moon was shining clearly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like bits of silver.

Who acts: moon, white pebbles · What happens: shine, lay, glitter · To what, where: white pebbles, front, house

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, white pebbles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shining	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shining	aux
4	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	4 shining	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pebbles	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pebbles	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pebbles	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pebbles	amod
10	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shining	obl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pebbles	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 front	nmod
18	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 house	acl
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 bits	case
20	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 glittered	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 silver	case
22	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bits	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	the moon	the white pebbles		clearly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	present	the white pebbles		front of the house		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in front=Destination
3	glitter	participle		the house not said here		like bits of silver	vn light_emission-43.1 «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: «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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