Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 30

The geysers burn no more, Hecla is an extinct volcano, but the rocky island is still fixed in the midst of the foaming sea, a continual monument of legend and poetry.

Who acts: geysers, Hecla · What happens: burn, be, fix, foam · To what, where: more, extinct volcano, rocky island, midst

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geysers, Hecla), 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 geysers	det
2	geysers	geyser	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burn	nsubj
3	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 burn	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 volcano	punct
7	Hecla	Hecla	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 volcano	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 volcano	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 volcano	det
10	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 volcano	amod
11	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burn	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fixed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 fixed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 island	det
15	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 island	amod
16	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fixed	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fixed	aux:pass
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 fixed	advmod
19	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 burn	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 midst	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 midst	det
22	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fixed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 sea	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
25	foaming	foam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 sea	amod
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 midst	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 monument	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 monument	det
29	continual	continual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 monument	amod
30	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 midst	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 legend	case
32	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 monument	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 poetry	cc
34	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 legend	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	burn	present	the geysers	more			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	is a	present	Hecla	a extinct volcano			tree rules
3	fix	present · passive		the rocky island	the midst of the foaming sea and a continual monument of legend and poetry	still	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
4	foam	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «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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