Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 17

Day broke through the light clouds; country people went across the heath to church; the black-gowned women with their white head-dresses looked like ghosts that had stepped forth from the church pictures.

Who acts: Day, country people, gowned women · What happens: break, go, gown, look, step · To what, where: light clouds, heath, ghosts, church pictures

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, country people, gowned women), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 clouds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clouds	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clouds	compound
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 people	compound
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	conj
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 heath	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heath	det
13	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 church	case
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 women	det
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gowned	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 black	punct
20	gowned	gown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 women	amod
21	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 looked	nsubj
22	with	with	ADP	_	27 dresses	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dresses	nmod:poss
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dresses	amod
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dresses	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 head	punct
27	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 women	nmod
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	conj
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 ghosts	case
30	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 looked	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 stepped	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stepped	aux
33	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 ghosts	acl:relcl
34	forth	forth	ADV	_	33 stepped	advmod
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 pictures	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pictures	det
37	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pictures	compound
38	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stepped	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	Day		the light clouds		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cloud=Location
2	go	past	country people		the heath	to church	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme across heath=Initial_Location to church=Destination
3	gown	participle					tree rules
4	look	past	the gowned women with women's white head dresses			like ghosts	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	step	past · perfect · passive		ghosts	the church pictures	forth property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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