Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 104

Then the sand ceased to fly inland, but the hills that had been piled up still remained.

Who acts: sand · What happens: cease, fly, pile up, remain · To what, where: hills

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sand), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ceased	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sand	det
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ceased	nsubj
4	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ceased	xcomp
7	inland	inland	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remained	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 remained	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hills	det
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 remained	nsubj:pass
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 piled	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 piled	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 piled	aux:pass
15	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hills	acl:relcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 piled	compound:prt
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 remained	advmod
18	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ceased	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cease	participle	the sand		then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	fly	to-infinitive	the sand not said here			inland property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pile up	past · perfect · passive		the hills			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination
4	remain	participle · passive		the hills	still		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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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