Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 131

He was seated on the back of the East Wind, who held him faithfully; and they were so high in the air that woods and fields, rivers and lakes, as they lay beneath them, looked like a painted map.

Who acts: East Wind, Winds, that · What happens: seat, hold, be, wood, lay, look · To what, where: prince, back, air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (East Wind, Winds, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	aux:pass
3	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seated	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Wind	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Wind	det
9	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Wind	compound
10	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 back	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 held	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 held	nsubj
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Wind	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 held	obj
15	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	13 held	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 high	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 high	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 high	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 high	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 high	advmod
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seated	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 high	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 woods	nsubj
26	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 air	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fields	cc
28	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 woods	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rivers	punct
30	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 woods	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lakes	cc
32	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 woods	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 lay	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lay	nsubj
36	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 high	advcl
37	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lay	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 looked	punct
40	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lay	advcl
41	like	like	ADP	_	44 map	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 map	det
43	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 map	amod
44	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 looked	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past · passive		prince	the back of the East Wind		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
2	hold	past	the East Wind	prince		faithfully property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	Winds = wind		the air and woods and fields and rivers and lakes	high property	tree rules
4	wood		that				tree rules
5	lay	present	Winds = wind			beneath lakes = lake	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beneath they=Destination
6	look	past	Winds = wind not said here			like a painted map	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	paint	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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