The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 101

The lady-birches waved in the wind; and when the sun shone, everything glittered and sparkled as if it were sprinkled with diamond dust, and great diamonds were lying on the snowy carpet.

Who acts: sun, great diamonds · What happens: wave, shine, glitter, sparkle, sprinkle, lie · To what, where: lady birches, everything, branch, snowy carpet

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, great diamonds), 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	4 birches	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 birches	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 lady	punct
4	birches	birch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	waved	wave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 birches	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waved	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 shone	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shone	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 shone	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shone	nsubj
14	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 birches	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shone	punct
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 shone	obj
17	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 everything	acl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sparkled	cc
19	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 glittered	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 sprinkled	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 sprinkled	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sprinkled	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sprinkled	aux:pass
24	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sparkled	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 dust	case
26	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dust	compound
27	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sprinkled	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lying	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lying	cc
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 diamonds	amod
31	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lying	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lying	aux
33	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 shone	advcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 carpet	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 carpet	det
36	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 carpet	amod
37	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lying	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 birches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wave	participle		the lady birches not said here		in the wind	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme
2	shine	past	the sun	everything			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
3	glitter	participle					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sparkle	participle					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sprinkle	past · passive		branch		with diamond dust	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dust=Theme
6	lie	past · progressive	great diamonds		the snowy carpet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on carpet=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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