Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 3

The most lovely landscapes appeared like boiled spinach, and the people became hideous, and looked as if they stood on their heads and had no bodies.

Who acts: lovely landscapes, people · What happens: appear, boil, become, look, stand, have · To what, where: heads, bodies

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely landscapes, people), 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 landscapes	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 lovely	advmod
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 landscapes	amod
4	landscapes	landscape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 appeared	nsubj
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 spinach	case
7	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 spinach	amod
8	spinach	spinach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 became	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	parataxis
14	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 became	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 stood	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 stood	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 heads	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heads	nmod:poss
24	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stood	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stood	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 bodies	det
28	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the lovely landscapes			like boiled spinach	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	boil	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	become	past	the people			hideous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	look	past	the people not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	stand	past	people		people's heads		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
6	have	past	people not said here	no bodies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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