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title: The setting sun was shining upon the brilliant stones, and their cha… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The setting sun was shining upon the brilliant stones, and their changing hues and sparkling rays caused the children to pause to admire them also. Who acts: setting sun, changing hues, children. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 97

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The setting sun was shining upon the brilliant stones, and their changing hues and sparkling rays caused the children to pause to admire them also.

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**Who acts:** setting sun, changing hues, children · **What happens:** shine, sparkle, cause, pause, admire · **To what, where:** brilliant stones, children, maidens

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, 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 (setting sun, changing hues, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:23:97
# text = The setting sun was shining upon the brilliant stones, and their changing hues and sparkling rays caused the children to pause to admire them also.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	changing	changing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	hues	hue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	pause	pause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past · progressive | the setting sun |  |  | the brilliant stones |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stone=Location |
| 2 | **sparkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | past | maidens's changing hues and sparkling rays | the children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pause** | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **admire** | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* | maidens *= maiden* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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