Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 100

The pointed towers, the decorated and open cloisters, the stately columns, the white statues which smiled upon him from every corner and porch and arch,--all, even the church itself, seemed to him to have been formed from the snow of his native land.

Who acts: white statues, all, pointed towers, native land · What happens: decorate, smile, church, seem, form, snow · To what, where: corner, church, master, snow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (white statues, all, pointed towers, native land), 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	3 towers	det
2	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 towers	amod
3	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 seemed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cloisters	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cloisters	det
6	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cloisters	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 open	cc
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 decorated	conj
9	cloisters	cloister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 towers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 columns	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 columns	det
12	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 columns	amod
13	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cloisters	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 statues	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 statues	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 statues	amod
17	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 columns	appos
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 smiled	nsubj
19	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 statues	acl:relcl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 smiled	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 corner	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 corner	det
24	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 smiled	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 porch	cc
26	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 corner	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 arch	cc
28	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 corner	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 towers	punct
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 church	punct
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 church	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 church	punct
33	even	even	ADV	_	35 church	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 church	det
35	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 towers	conj
36	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	35 church	nmod:unmarked
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 towers	punct
38	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seemed	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	44 formed	mark
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 formed	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 formed	aux:pass
44	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 seemed	advcl
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 snow	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 snow	det
47	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 formed	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 land	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 land	nmod:poss
50	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 land	amod
51	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 snow	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	decorate	participle						vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	smile	past	the white statues			every corner and porch and arch	upon master	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	church		all	church				tree rules
4	seem	past	the pointed towers and the decorated cloisters and the church		master			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	form	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	the pointed towers and the decorated cloisters and the church not said here			the snow of master's native land		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»
6	snow		master's native land					nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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