Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 22
He looked out over it, and over the rampart, and over the nuns' hill opposite, where the convent lay, and the light gleamed forth from the nun's cell.
Who acts: monk, convent, light · What happens: look out, lie, gleam · To what, where: lake, cell
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk, convent, light), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rampart | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rampart | cc |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 rampart | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rampart | det |
| 10 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 opposite | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 opposite | cc |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 opposite | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nuns | det |
| 15 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 opposite | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 nuns | case |
| 17 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opposite | compound |
| 18 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rampart | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 lay | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 convent | det |
| 22 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 opposite | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gleamed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gleamed | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 light | det |
| 27 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gleamed | nsubj |
| 28 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 29 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 28 gleamed | advmod |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 cell | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 nun | det |
| 32 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cell | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 nun | case |
| 34 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gleamed | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | monk | lake | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the convent | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gleam | past | the light | the nun's cell | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
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