---
title: Its ring was broad, and from its circumference the rays shot like wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Its ring was broad, and from its circumference the rays shot like whirling shafts of fire across the whole sky, flashing in changing radiance from green to red. Who acts: ring, rays. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening, with its dependency tree and
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Ninth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/) / 10

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Its ring was broad, and from its circumference the rays shot like whirling shafts of fire across the whole sky, flashing in changing radiance from green to red.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** ring, rays · **What happens:** be, shoot, whirl, flash, change · **To what, where:** circumference, shafts, whole sky, radiance, green

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, rays), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:100:10
# text = Its ring was broad, and from its circumference the rays shot like whirling shafts of fire across the whole sky, flashing in changing radiance from green to red.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	circumference	circumference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	shafts	shaft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	across	across	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | light's ring |  |  |  |  | broad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | the rays |  |  | light's circumference |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from circumference=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **whirl** | gerund | the rays *not said here* | shafts of fire |  | the whole sky |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme across sky=Destination |
| 4 | **flash** | gerund | the rays *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **change** | gerund | the rays *not said here* | radiance |  | green |  | to red | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/9/)
- next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/11/)
- ↑ back to [Ninth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/)