Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 32
The many delicate forms concealed in summer by luxuriant foliage, were now clearly defined, and looked like glittering lace-work.
What happens: conceal, define, look, glitter · To what, where: many delicate forms, lace work
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. 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 | 4 forms | det |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forms | amod |
| 3 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forms | amod |
| 4 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 defined | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 forms | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 summer | case |
| 7 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concealed | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 foliage | case |
| 9 | luxuriant | luxuriant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foliage | amod |
| 10 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concealed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forms | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 defined | aux:pass |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 defined | advmod |
| 14 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 15 defined | advmod |
| 15 | defined | define | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 defined | conj |
| 19 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 20 glittering | mark |
| 20 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 looked | advcl |
| 21 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 work | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 lace | punct |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 glittering | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 defined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | participle | the many delicate forms not said here | summer | by luxuriant foliage | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by foliage=Location | |||
| 2 | define | past · passive | the many delicate forms | now | clearly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | glitter | gerund | lace work | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
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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