Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 102

But the mountains were not so near as they appeared; they had to travel a whole day before they reached them, and pass through black forests and piles of rock as large as a town.

Who acts: mountains · What happens: not be, appear, have, travel, reach, pass · To what, where: clouds, black forests

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountains), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 mountains	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mountains	det
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 near	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 near	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 near	advmod
7	near	near	ADV	_	3 mountains	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 appeared	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 appeared	nsubj
10	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 near	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 appeared	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 travel	mark
15	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 travel	obl:unmarked
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 reached	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reached	nsubj
21	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 travel	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reached	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pass	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pass	cc
25	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 had	conj
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 forests	case
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 forests	amod
28	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pass	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 piles	cc
30	piles	pile	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 forests	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 rock	case
32	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 forests	nmod
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 large	advmod
34	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pass	advcl
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 town	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 town	det
37	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 large	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mountains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past					near property	tree rules
2	appear	past	mountains = mountain					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	have	past	mountains = mountain					tree rules
4	travel	to-infinitive	mountains = mountain not said here			day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	reach	past	mountains = mountain	clouds = cloud				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	pass	present	mountains = mountain not said here		black forests of rock and piles			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location

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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