Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 6
Gaunt ice-covered rocks and dark clouds hung over a valley, where dwarf willows and barberry bushes stood clothed in green.
Who acts: Gaunt covered rocks, dwarf willows · What happens: cover, hang, stand, clothe · To what, where: valley
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 (Gaunt covered rocks, dwarf willows), 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 | Gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rocks | amod |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ice | punct |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rocks | amod |
| 5 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hung | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 clouds | cc |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clouds | amod |
| 8 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rocks | conj |
| 9 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 valley | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 valley | det |
| 12 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hung | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 stood | advmod |
| 15 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 willows | amod |
| 16 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bushes | cc |
| 18 | barberry | barberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bushes | compound |
| 19 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 willows | conj |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hung | conj |
| 21 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 stood | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 green | case |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 clothed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hang | past | Gaunt covered rocks and dark clouds | a valley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over valley=Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | dwarf willows and barberry bushes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | clothe | participle | dwarf willows and barberry bushes not said here | in green | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in green=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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