Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 101

Above him was the blue sky; below him, the city and the wide-spreading plains of Lombardy; and towards the north, the lofty mountains, covered with perpetual snow.

Who acts: master · What happens: be, spread, cover · To what, where: blue sky, lofty mountains

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 (master), 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	Above	above	ADP	_	6 sky	case
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sky	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sky	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sky	amod
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 him	punct
8	below	below	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sky	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 city	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 him	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 plains	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 plains	det
15	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spreading	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 wide	punct
17	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 plains	amod
18	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 city	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Lombardy	case
20	Lombardy	Lombardy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 plains	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sky	cc
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	25 north	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 north	det
25	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 and	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mountains	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mountains	det
28	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mountains	amod
29	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 north	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 covered	punct
31	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 mountains	acl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 snow	case
33	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 snow	compound
34	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 covered	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sky	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	master		the blue sky	below Knud	tree rules
2	spread	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cover	participle		the lofty mountains not said here		with perpetual snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snow=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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