Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 72

He would sing snatches of songs or old melodies, pictures of the past would rise before him, and then disappear in the mist, as it were, but as a general rule he sat staring into vacancy, without a thought.

Who acts: Jurgen, snatches, mist · What happens: sing, rise, disappear, be, sit, stare · To what, where: mist, songs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, snatches, mist), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	snatches	snatch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rise	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 songs	case
6	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 snatches	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 melodies	cc
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 melodies	amod
9	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 songs	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pictures	punct
11	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 songs	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 past	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 past	det
14	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pictures	nmod
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 rise	aux
16	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sing	ccomp
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rise	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 disappear	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 disappear	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 disappear	advmod
22	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 mist	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mist	det
25	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 disappear	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 were	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 were	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 were	nsubj
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 disappear	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sat	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 sat	cc
32	as	as	ADP	_	35 rule	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 rule	det
34	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 rule	amod
35	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sat	obl
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sat	nsubj
37	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 were	advcl
38	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 sat	advcl
39	into	into	ADP	_	40 vacancy	case
40	vacancy	vacancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 staring	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 thought	punct
42	without	without	ADP	_	44 thought	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 thought	det
44	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 staring	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	would	Jurgen					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rise	would	snatches of songs or old melodies and pictures of the past			before Jurgen		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	disappear	present			the mist	then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	past	mist					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	past	Jurgen				as a general rule	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stare	gerund	Jurgen not said here				without a thought; into vacancy	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into vacancy=Theme
7	snatch			songs or old melodies and pictures of the past				nom snatch «communication 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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