Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 8
The air was transparent and blue, and black Vesuvius formed the background, with fire ever shooting forth from it, like the stem of the pine tree.
Who acts: air, black Vesuvius, fire · What happens: be, form, shoot, stem · To what, where: background, air, pine tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, black Vesuvius, fire), 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 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 transparent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 transparent | cop |
| 4 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 blue | cc |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 transparent | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 formed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 formed | cc |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Vesuvius | amod |
| 10 | Vesuvius | Vesuvius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 formed | nsubj |
| 11 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 transparent | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 background | det |
| 13 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 formed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fire | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 formed | obl |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 fire | advmod |
| 18 | shooting | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 fire | acl |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 shooting | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shooting | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stem | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 stem | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stem | det |
| 25 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shooting | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tree | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 28 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tree | compound |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stem | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 transparent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the air | transparent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the air not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | form | past | black Vesuvius | the background | with fire | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location background=Theme | |||
| 4 | shoot | gerund | fire not said here | air | like the stem of the pine tree; forth property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from it=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | stem | the pine tree | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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