Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 42
The earth that covered it was drawn back like a floating drapery.
Who acts: earth · What happens: cover, draw back, float · To what, where: earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), 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 earth | det |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 covered | nsubj |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 earth | acl:relcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 covered | obj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drawn | aux:pass |
| 7 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 drawn | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 drapery | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 drapery | det |
| 11 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 drapery | amod |
| 12 | drapery | drapery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drawn | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the earth | earth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | draw back | past · passive | the earth | like a floating drapery | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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