Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 73

The gigantic pine-forests, on the pointed crags, seemed almost like little tufts of heather, colored by the surrounding clouds.

Who acts: gigantic pine forests · What happens: seem, color · To what, where: little tufts

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gigantic pine forests), 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	5 forests	det
2	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forests	amod
3	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forests	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 pine	punct
5	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seemed	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crags	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 crags	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crags	det
9	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crags	amod
10	crags	crag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forests	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 forests	punct
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 tufts	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 tufts	case
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tufts	amod
16	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seemed	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 heather	case
18	heather	heather	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tufts	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 colored	punct
20	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tufts	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 clouds	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 clouds	det
23	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clouds	compound
24	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 colored	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the gigantic pine forests and the pointed crags	little tufts of heather					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tuft=Attribute
2	color	participle		little tufts of heather not said here				by the surrounding clouds	vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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