Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 181
He looked through another pane, and saw the ladder in Jacob's dream, on which the angels were ascending and descending with outspread wings.
Who acts: prince, angels, Jacob · What happens: look, see, ascend, descend, dream · To what, where: ladder, dream
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 (prince, angels, Jacob), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 pane | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 pane | det |
| 5 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ladder | det |
| 10 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dream | case |
| 12 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dream | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Jacob | case |
| 14 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ascending | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 ascending | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 angels | det |
| 19 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ascending | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ascending | aux |
| 21 | ascending | ascend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 descending | cc |
| 23 | descending | descend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 ascending | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 wings | case |
| 25 | outspread | outspread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wings | amod |
| 26 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 descending | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | prince | through another pane | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through pane=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the ladder | Jacob's dream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ladder=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ascend | past · progressive | the angels | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | descend | gerund | the angels not said here | with outspread wings | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dream | Jacob | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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