Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 171
The soil smoked and sent up clouds of mist, fantastic pictures, pictures in which there was reality; and from these floating islands he looked across at human life.
Who acts: soil · What happens: smoke, send up, float, look, cloud · To what, where: soil, clouds, mist
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soil), 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 soil | det |
| 2 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soil | acl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sent | cc |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 smoked | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 sent | compound:prt |
| 7 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mist | case |
| 9 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clouds | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pictures | punct |
| 11 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pictures | amod |
| 12 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clouds | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pictures | punct |
| 14 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clouds | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 was | obl |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pictures | acl:relcl |
| 19 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 looked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 looked | cc |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 islands | case |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 islands | det |
| 24 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 islands | amod |
| 25 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 looked | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 looked | nsubj |
| 27 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | across | across | ADV | _ | 27 looked | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 30 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 life | amod |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looked | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smoke | participle | the soil not said here | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send up | participle | clouds of mist and fantastic pictures and pictures | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | |||||
| 3 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | look | past | the soil | at human life; from this floating islands; across property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from island=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cloud | mist | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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