--- title: He knew not; but the walls of ice shone like blue-green glass; innum… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He knew not; but the walls of ice shone like blue-green glass; innumerable clefts yawned around him, and the water-drops tinkled like the chiming of church bells, and shone clearly as pearls in the light of a pale-blue flame. Who acts: Maiden, innumerable clefts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/52/) [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/) / [XII. Evil Powers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/) / 52 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 52 He knew not; but the walls of ice shone like blue-green glass; innumerable clefts yawned around him, and the water-drops tinkled like the chiming of church bells, and shone clearly as pearls in the light of a pale-blue flame. **Who acts:** Maiden, innumerable clefts · **What happens:** not know, shine, yawn, tinkle, chime, light · **To what, where:** walls, ice, water drops, light, blue flame This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden, innumerable clefts), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:63:52 # text = He knew not; but the walls of ice shone like blue-green glass; innumerable clefts yawned around him, and the water-drops tinkled like the chiming of church bells, and shone clearly as pearls in the light of a pale-blue flame. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 innumerable innumerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 clefts cleft NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 yawned yawn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 around around ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 tinkled tinkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 29 like like SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 chiming chime VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 38 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 pearls pearl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 46 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | past | Maiden | the walls of ice | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **shine** | participle | | ice *not said here* | | | | like green glass | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **yawn** | past | innumerable clefts | | | | | around Maiden | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tinkle** | participle · passive | | the water drops | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **chime** | gerund | | | | | | of church bells | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **shine** | past | | | | the light of a blue flame | | as pearls; clearly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | | 7 | **light** | | | a blue flame | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/53/) - ↑ back to [XII. Evil Powers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/)