Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 16
Norway's mountains seemed to rise higher in the sunlight of former days; there was a rustling among the pine trees and the birches; the gods of the North, the heroes, and the noble women, showed themselves in the dark forest depths.
Who acts: mountains, rustling, noble women · What happens: seem, rise, be, show · To what, where: gods, sunlight, women
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountains, rustling, noble women), 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 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mountains | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Norway | case |
| 3 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rise | mark |
| 6 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | higher | high | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 rise | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sunlight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sunlight | det |
| 10 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rise | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 12 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 days | amod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sunlight | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seemed | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rustling | det |
| 18 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trees | det |
| 21 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trees | compound |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rustling | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 birches | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 birches | det |
| 25 | birches | birch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 trees | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 gods | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gods | det |
| 28 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seemed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 North | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 North | det |
| 31 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 gods | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 heroes | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 heroes | det |
| 34 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gods | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 showed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 showed | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 women | det |
| 38 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 women | amod |
| 39 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 showed | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 women | punct |
| 41 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seemed | conj |
| 42 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 showed | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 depths | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 depths | det |
| 45 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 depths | amod |
| 46 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 depths | compound |
| 47 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 showed | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Norway's mountains | the gods of the North and the heroes | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | rise | to-infinitive | Norway's mountains not said here | the sunlight of former days | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunlight=Location | |||
| 3 | be | past | a rustling among the pine trees and the birches | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | past | the noble women | women = woman | in the dark forest depths | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in depth=Topic |
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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