Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 33

He knew, also, that even if he ascended to the top of the highest mountain which rears its lofty summit on this earth, the air, which to us seems clear and transparent, would there be dark and cloudy; the sun would have a coppery glow and send forth no rays, and our earth would lie beneath him wrapped in an orange-colored mist.

Who acts: man, highest mountain, earth, sun · What happens: know, ascend, rear, seem, be, have · To what, where: top, lofty summit, earth, coppery glow, rays, colored mist

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, highest mountain, earth, sun), 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 also	punct
4	also	also	ADV	_	2 knew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ascended	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 ascended	mark
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 ascended	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 ascended	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ascended	nsubj
10	ascended	ascend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 top	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ascended	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 mountain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountain	det
16	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 mountain	amod
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	nmod
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 rears	nsubj
19	rears	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 mountain	acl:relcl
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 summit	nmod:poss
21	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 summit	amod
22	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rears	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 earth	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 earth	det
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rears	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 air	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 air	det
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 earth	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seems	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 seems	nsubj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 us	case
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 which	obl
33	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 earth	acl:relcl
34	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 seems	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 transparent	cc
36	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 clear	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 dark	punct
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 dark	aux
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 dark	advmod
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 dark	cop
41	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ascended	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 cloudy	cc
43	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 dark	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 have	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sun	det
46	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 have	aux
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	parataxis
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 glow	det
50	coppery	coppery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 glow	amod
51	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 send	cc
53	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 have	conj
54	forth	forth	ADV	_	53 send	advmod
55	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	56 rays	det
56	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 send	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 lie	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 lie	cc
59	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 earth	nmod:poss
60	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 lie	nsubj
61	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 lie	aux
62	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 have	conj
63	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	64 him	case
64	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 lie	obl
65	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 lie	xcomp
66	in	in	ADP	_	71 mist	case
67	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 mist	det
68	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 colored	compound
69	-	-	PUNCT	_	68 orange	punct
70	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	71 mist	amod
71	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 wrapped	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	ascend a condition, not said to happen	past	man		the top of the highest mountain		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location
3	rear	present	the highest mountain	mountain's lofty summit	this earth and the air		vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summit=Patient
4	seem	present	this earth and the air			clear property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	would			there	dark property	tree rules
6	be						tree rules
7	have	would	the sun	a coppery glow			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glow=Patient
8	send	present	the sun not said here	no rays		forth property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme
9	lie	would	our earth			beneath man	tree rules
10	wrap	participle	our earth not said here		a colored mist		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mist=Destination
11	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: 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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