Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 190
First came the lofty Alps, snow-clad, and covered with clouds and dark pines.
What happens: come, cover · To what, where: lofty Alps
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: 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Alps | det |
| 4 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Alps | amod |
| 5 | Alps | Alp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clad | punct |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clad | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 snow | punct |
| 9 | clad | clad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Alps | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 covered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 covered | cc |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 clouds | case |
| 14 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 covered | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pines | cc |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pines | amod |
| 17 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clouds | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the lofty Alps and snow clad | first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location alp=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | with clouds and dark pines | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloud=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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