Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 11

They arrived at last at such a great height that towns and villages lay beneath them, and the church steeples looked like little specks between the green trees.

Who acts: tongs, towns, church steeples · What happens: arrive, lay, look · To what, where: last, great height

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongs, towns, church steeples), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrived	nsubj
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 arrived	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 height	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 height	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 height	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 height	amod
9	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrived	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lay	obj
11	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lay	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 villages	cc
13	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 towns	conj
14	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 height	acl:relcl
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 steeples	det
20	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 steeples	compound
21	steeples	steeple	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arrived	conj
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 specks	case
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 specks	amod
25	specks	speck	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 looked	obl
26	between	between	ADP	_	29 trees	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trees	det
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 trees	amod
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 specks	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	tongs = tong		last	at such great height	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	present	towns and villages	such great height		beneath tongs = tong	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme beneath they=Destination
3	look	past	the church steeples			like little specks between the green trees	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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