Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 80

All at once, in front of one of the houses where the sea grass did not keep the sand down with its twining roots, what seemed to be a column of smoke rose up.

Who acts: sea grass, twining roots, column · What happens: not keep down, seem, be, rise up · To what, where: sand, column

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea grass, twining roots, column), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 front	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 All	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 front	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 front	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 houses	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 houses	det
11	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 keep	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grass	compound
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 keep	advmod
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 houses	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sand	det
20	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	18 keep	compound:prt
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 roots	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 roots	nmod:poss
24	twining	twining	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 roots	compound
25	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keep	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 roots	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	32 column	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 column	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 column	det
32	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rose	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 smoke	case
34	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 column	nmod
35	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seemed	conj
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 rose	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 front	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not keep down	past · do-support	the sea grass	the sand	with house's twining roots	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sand=Patient with root=Instrument
2	seem	past	house's twining roots			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		a column	of smoke	tree rules
4	rise up	past	a column			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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