Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 43

Fragments of glass, climbing weeds, and remains of artichokes had gathered about it and sullied its purity; but under the surface the block was as white as the mountain snow; and from this block the Psyche was to arise."

Who acts: block, Psyche · What happens: climb, gather, sully, be · To what, where: remains, purity, surface, block

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 (block, Psyche), 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	Fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 glass	case
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fragments	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weeds	punct
5	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 weeds	amod
6	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fragments	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gathered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gathered	cc
9	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 gathered	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 artichokes	case
11	artichokes	artichoke	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remains	nmod
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gathered	aux
13	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Fragments	parataxis
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gathered	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sullied	cc
17	sullied	sully	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gathered	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 purity	nmod:poss
19	purity	purity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sullied	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 white	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 white	cc
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 surface	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 surface	det
24	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 white	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 block	det
26	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 white	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 white	cop
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 white	advmod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fragments	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	33 snow	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 snow	det
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 snow	compound
33	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 white	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 arise	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 arise	cc
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 block	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 block	det
38	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 arise	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Psyche	det
40	Psyche	Psyche	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 arise	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 arise	cop
42	to	to	PART	_	43 arise	mark
43	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fragments	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 arise	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 arise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather	past · perfect · passive		remains of artichokes		about glass	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	sully	past		glass's purity			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme purity=Destination
4	is	past	the block		the surface	as the mountain snow; white property	tree rules
5	is	past	the Psyche		this block	arise property	tree rules

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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