Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 101

Within, down it sunk perpendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish mile in depth; while below lay a town, whose appearance we can, in some measure, realize to ourselves by beating the white of an egg in a glass of water.

Who acts: moon · What happens: sink, lie, realize, beat · To what, where: caldron, town, measure, ourselves, white

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (moon), 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	Within	within	INTJ	_	3 down	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Within	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	5 sunk	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sunk	nsubj
5	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	perpendicularly	perpendicularly	ADV	_	5 sunk	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 caldron	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 caldron	det
9	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sunk	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mile	punct
11	about	about	ADV	_	14 mile	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mile	det
13	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mile	amod
14	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caldron	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 depth	case
16	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mile	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 lay	mark
19	below	below	ADV	_	20 lay	advmod
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sunk	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 town	det
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 appearance	punct
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	25 appearance	nmod:poss
25	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 town	appos
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 can	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 appearance	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 measure	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 measure	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 measure	det
31	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 realize	punct
33	realize	realize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lay	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 ourselves	case
35	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 realize	obl
36	by	by	SCONJ	_	37 beating	mark
37	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 realize	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 white	det
39	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 beating	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 egg	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 egg	det
42	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 white	nmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 glass	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 glass	det
45	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 beating	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 water	case
47	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 glass	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sunk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sink	past	moon			a caldron a Danish mile in depth	down, perpendicularly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	lie	past		a town		some measure	below property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=Theme
3	realize	infinitive			ourselves			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	beat	gerund		the white of a egg			in a glass of water	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent white=Patient in glass=Topic

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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