Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 22

They now continued their journey over the mountains for many miles, till they at length reached a large city, containing hundreds of towers, that shone in the sunshine like silver.

Who acts: wings, that · What happens: continue, reach, contain, shine, journey · To what, where: journey, mountains, large city, hundreds, sunshine

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 (wings, that), 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	3 continued	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 continued	advmod
3	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 journey	nmod:poss
5	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 continued	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 mountains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountains	det
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 continued	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 miles	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 miles	amod
11	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mountains	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reached	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 reached	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reached	nsubj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 length	case
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 they	nmod
17	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 city	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 city	amod
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 containing	punct
22	containing	contain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 reached	advcl
23	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 containing	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 towers	case
25	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hundreds	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shone	punct
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 shone	nsubj
28	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 containing	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 sunshine	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sunshine	det
31	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shone	obl
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 silver	case
33	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sunshine	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	continue	past	wings = wing	wings's journey	the mountains for many miles	now	tree rules
2	reach	past	wings = wing	a large city			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme
3	contain	gerund	wings = wing not said here	hundreds of towers			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hundred=Theme
4	shine	past	that		the sunshine like silver		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location
5	journey		wings = wing				nom journey «act transitive»: 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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