Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 4

Before us rises a great mound of sand--a mountain we have long seen, and towards which we are wending our way, driving slowly along through the deep sand.

Who acts: us, we · What happens: rise, see, wend, drive · To what, where: great mound, mountain, way, deep sand

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, we), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 rises	mark
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 rises	nsubj
3	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mound	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mound	amod
6	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rises	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sand	case
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mound	nmod
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 rises	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mountain	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	nsubj:pass
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 seen	advmod
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wending	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wending	cc
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 wending	obl
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 wending	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wending	aux
22	wending	wend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 seen	advcl
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 way	nmod:poss
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wending	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 driving	punct
26	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 wending	conj
27	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	26 driving	advmod
28	along	along	ADV	_	26 driving	advmod
29	through	through	ADP	_	32 sand	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sand	det
31	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sand	amod
32	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 driving	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	present	us	a great mound of sand			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mound=Theme
2	see	present · perfect · passive		a mountain		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	wend	present · progressive	we	our way			tree rules
4	drive	gerund	we not said here		the deep sand	along, slowly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through sand=Trajectory

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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