Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 18

The rocks heaved, the glaciers melted, and great masses of ice and snow came crashing down, shivering to fragments as they fall; it was a glorious Greenland summer night.

Who acts: rocks, glaciers, great masses, masses, defendant · What happens: heave, melt, come, crash down, shiver, fall · To what, where: glorious Greenland summer night

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocks, glaciers, great masses, masses), 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 rocks	det
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heaved	nsubj
3	heaved	heave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 melted	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glaciers	det
6	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 melted	nsubj
7	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heaved	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 masses	amod
11	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 ice	case
13	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 masses	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 snow	cc
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ice	conj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 melted	conj
17	crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 came	xcomp
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 crashing	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shivering	punct
20	shivering	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 crashing	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 fragments	case
22	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shivering	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 fall	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fall	nsubj
25	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 shivering	advcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 night	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 night	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 night	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 night	det
30	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 night	amod
31	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 night	compound
32	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 night	compound
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heaved	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heaved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	heave	past	the rocks			vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	melt	past	the glaciers			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	great masses of ice and snow			tree rules
4	crash down	gerund	great masses of ice and snow not said here			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	shiver	gerund	great masses of ice and snow not said here		to fragments	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	fall	present	masses = mass			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	past	defendant	a glorious Greenland summer night		tree rules

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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