The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 58

One day, whilst passing near a fountain in the garden, she noticed that the sun’s rays fell on the water in such a manner as to produce a brilliant rainbow.

Who acts: One day, Princess, rays, sun · What happens: pass, notice, fall, produce, ray · To what, where: fountain, water, brilliant rainbow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (One day, Princess, rays, sun), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 noticed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 passing	punct
4	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	5 passing	mark
5	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 day	acl
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 fountain	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fountain	det
8	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passing	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 noticed	nsubj
14	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 fell	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rays	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 sun	case
19	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fell	nsubj
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 noticed	ccomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 water	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 manner	case
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 manner	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 manner	det
27	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 produce	mark
29	to	to	PART	_	30 produce	mark
30	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fell	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 rainbow	det
32	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rainbow	amod
33	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 produce	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	One day not said here		a fountain		in the garden	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near fountain=Location
2	notice	past	Princess			day		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	fall	past	the sun's rays		the water		in such manner	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on water=Location
4	produce	to-infinitive	the sun's rays not said here	a brilliant rainbow				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rainbow=Result
5	ray		the sun					nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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