The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 83
The evening sun shone on the glittering stones, and they glanced and gleamed so beautifully that the children stood still and gazed on them.
Who acts: evening sun, children · What happens: shine, glance, gleam, stand, gaze · To what, where: evening sun, glittering stones
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening sun, children), 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 | 3 sun | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sun | compound |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glanced | nsubj |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sun | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stones | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stones | det |
| 7 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stones | compound |
| 8 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shone | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glanced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glanced | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 glanced | nsubj |
| 12 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gleamed | cc |
| 14 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glanced | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 beautifully | advmod |
| 16 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 14 gleamed | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 stood | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 children | det |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gleamed | advcl |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 stood | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gazed | cc |
| 23 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 stood | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gazed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | participle | the evening sun not said here | the glittering stones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Location | ||||
| 2 | glance | past | the evening sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gleam | past | the evening sun not said here | beautifully property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the children | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | gaze | participle | the children not said here | on girls = girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=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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