Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 102
The matter of which it was built was just as soft, and formed similar towers, and domes, and pillars, transparent and rocking in the thin air; while above his head our earth was rolling like a large fiery ball.
Who acts: matter, earth · What happens: build, be, form, rock, roll · To what, where: matter, similar towers, thin air, head
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 (matter, earth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 matter | det |
| 2 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soft | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 built | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 built | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | aux:pass |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 matter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 soft | cop |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 soft | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 soft | case |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 formed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 formed | cc |
| 14 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 soft | conj |
| 15 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 towers | amod |
| 16 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 formed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 domes | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 domes | cc |
| 19 | domes | dome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 towers | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pillars | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pillars | cc |
| 22 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 towers | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 transparent | punct |
| 24 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 towers | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rocking | cc |
| 26 | rocking | rock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 transparent | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 air | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 air | det |
| 29 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 air | amod |
| 30 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rocking | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 rolling | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 rolling | mark |
| 33 | above | above | ADP | _ | 35 head | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rolling | obl |
| 36 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 earth | nmod:poss |
| 37 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rolling | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 rolling | aux |
| 39 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 formed | advcl |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 ball | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 ball | det |
| 42 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 ball | amod |
| 43 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 ball | amod |
| 44 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rolling | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | matter | of the matter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the matter | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | past | the matter not said here | similar towers and domes and pillars | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rock | gerund | the matter not said here | the thin air | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | ||||
| 5 | roll | past · progressive | our earth | glass's head | like a large fiery ball | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above head=Trajectory |
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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