Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 161
The blocks of stone assumed a misty appearance, till at last they looked like white clouds in moonlight.
Who acts: blocks · What happens: assume, look · To what, where: misty appearance
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 (blocks), 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 blocks | det |
| 2 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 assumed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stone | case |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blocks | nmod |
| 5 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 appearance | det |
| 7 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 appearance | amod |
| 8 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assumed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 looked | mark |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looked | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 assumed | conj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 clouds | case |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clouds | amod |
| 17 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 moonlight | case |
| 19 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clouds | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 assumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | past | the blocks of stone | a misty appearance | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | blocks = block | like white clouds in moonlight; at last | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at last=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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