Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 39

The steam appeared to increase, as she continued her prayer, till it took the shape of little angels who grew larger the moment they touched the earth.

Who acts: steam, it, little angels, shapes · What happens: appear, increase, continue, take, grow, touch · To what, where: prayer, shape, earth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steam, it, little angels, shapes), 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 steam	det
2	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appeared	nsubj
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 increase	mark
5	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 appeared	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 continued	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 continued	nsubj
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 appeared	parataxis
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 prayer	nmod:poss
11	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 took	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 continued	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shape	det
17	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 angels	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 angels	amod
20	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shape	nmod
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 grew	nsubj
22	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 angels	acl:relcl
23	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 grew	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 larger	obl:unmarked
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 touched	nsubj
27	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 moment	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 earth	det
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touched	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the steam			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	increase	to-infinitive	the steam not said here			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	continue	past	steam	steam's prayer		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
4	take	past	it	the shape of little angels		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
5	grow	past	little angels		large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	touch	past	shapes = shape	the earth		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme
7	pray		steam			nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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