Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 156
As they passed on through this wonderful cave, the prince could see great blocks of stone, from which water trickled, hanging over their heads in fantastic shapes.
Who acts: Winds, prince, water · What happens: pass on, see, trickle, hang · To what, where: wonderful cave, great blocks, heads
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 (Winds, prince, water), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 passed | compound:prt |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 cave | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cave | amod |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blocks | amod |
| 15 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blocks | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 trickled | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 trickled | obl |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trickled | nsubj |
| 22 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hanging | punct |
| 24 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 trickled | advcl |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 heads | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heads | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hanging | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 shapes | case |
| 29 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 shapes | amod |
| 30 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hanging | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass on | past | Winds = wind | this wonderful cave | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | could | the prince | great blocks of stone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer block=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | trickle | past | water | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from which=Source | |||||
| 4 | hang | gerund | water not said here | Winds's heads | in fantastic shapes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over head=Location |
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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