Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 27
The drifting sand had covered the vaulted roof of the church, the arched cloisters, and the stone aisles.
What happens: drift, cover, vault, arch · To what, where: drifting sand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 sand | det |
| 2 | drifting | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sand | amod |
| 3 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 7 | vaulted | vault | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 roof | amod |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 church | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 church | det |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roof | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cloisters | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cloisters | det |
| 14 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cloisters | amod |
| 15 | cloisters | cloister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 church | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 aisles | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 aisles | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 aisles | det |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 aisles | compound |
| 20 | aisles | aisle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | cover | past · perfect · passive | the drifting sand | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | vault | participle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | arch | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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