Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 73

The sun shone with considerable heat, and it was wonderful to behold how in the far distance something like smoke seemed to be rising; yet this smoke was clearer than the air; it was transparent, and looked like rays of light rolling and dancing afar over the heath.

Who acts: sun, something, smoke · What happens: shine, be, behold, seem, rise, look · To what, where: sun, afar, heath, light

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 (sun, something, smoke), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wonderful	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sun	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 heat	case
5	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heat	amod
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wonderful	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wonderful	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wonderful	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wonderful	cop
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 behold	mark
13	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wonderful	advcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 seemed	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 distance	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 distance	det
17	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 distance	amod
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seemed	obl
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 seemed	nsubj
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 smoke	case
21	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 something	nmod
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 behold	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	25 rising	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 rising	aux
25	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 seemed	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 clearer	punct
27	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	31 clearer	cc
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 smoke	det
29	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 clearer	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 clearer	cop
31	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 wonderful	conj
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 air	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 air	det
34	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 clearer	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 transparent	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 transparent	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 transparent	cop
38	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 clearer	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 looked	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 looked	cc
41	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 transparent	conj
42	like	like	ADP	_	43 rays	case
43	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 looked	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 light	case
45	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rays	nmod
46	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 looked	advcl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 dancing	cc
48	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 rolling	conj
49	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 dancing	obj
50	over	over	ADP	_	52 heath	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 heath	det
52	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 dancing	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wonderful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	participle		the sun not said here		with considerable heat	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme
2	is	past	the sun			wonderful property	tree rules
3	behold	to-infinitive	the sun not said here				tree rules
4	seem	past	something			in the far distance	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	rise	to-infinitive · progressive	something not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	this smoke			than the air; clear property	tree rules
7	is	past	smoke			transparent property	tree rules
8	look	past	smoke not said here			like rays of light	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	roll	gerund	smoke not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	dance	gerund	smoke not said here	afar	the heath		vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme afar=Destination over heath=Trajectory
11	ray			light			nom ray «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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