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title: The evening sun shone upon the brilliant stones; they glittered and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The evening sun shone upon the brilliant stones; they glittered and sparkled with all colours so beautifully that the children stood still and stared at them. Who acts: evening sun, girls, children. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 87

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The evening sun shone upon the brilliant stones; they glittered and sparkled with all colours so beautifully that the children stood still and stared at them.

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**Who acts:** evening sun, girls, children · **What happens:** shine, glitter, sparkle, stand, stare · **To what, where:** brilliant stones

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (evening sun, girls, 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:pg2591:60:87
# text = The evening sun shone upon the brilliant stones; they glittered and sparkled with all colours so beautifully that the children stood still and stared at them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | participle | the evening sun |  |  | the brilliant stones |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stone=Location |
| 2 | **glitter** | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sparkle** | participle | girls *= girl* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with all colours | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with colour=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the children |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stare** | past | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at girls *= girl* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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