Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 84

There were a thousand thousand bright stars shining over his head, and there was a little frost out, which left the grass under his foot white and crisp.

Who acts: thousand bright stars, little frost · What happens: shine, be, leave · To what, where: head, little frost, grass, foot

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, 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 (thousand bright stars, little frost), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 frost	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thousand	det
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	compound
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 stars	nummod
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stars	amod
7	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
8	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stars	acl
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shining	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 frost	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 frost	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 frost	amod
18	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 left	nsubj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 frost	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 left	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 left	nsubj
22	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 grass	det
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 left	obj
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 foot	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 foot	nmod:poss
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 left	obl
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 left	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 crisp	cc
30	crisp	crisp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 white	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	shine	gerund	thousand bright stars not said here		sound's head	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location
2	is a	past		a little frost		tree rules
3	leave	past	a little frost	the grass	sound's foot	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent grass=Theme under foot=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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