Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 83

The Alps appeared to him like the wings of earth folded together; unfolded, they would display the variegated pictures of dark woods, foaming waters, spreading clouds, and masses of snow. "

Who acts: Alps · What happens: appear, fold, unfold, display, foam, spread · To what, where: masses, Kjoge, earth, variegated pictures, waters, clouds

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 (Alps), 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	2 Alps	det
2	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 appeared	nsubj
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 appeared	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 wings	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wings	det
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appeared	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 earth	case
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wings	nmod
11	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 earth	acl
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 folded	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 unfolded	punct
14	unfolded	unfold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 folded	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 display	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 display	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 display	aux
18	display	display	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 appeared	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pictures	det
20	variegated	variegated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pictures	amod
21	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 display	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 woods	case
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woods	amod
24	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pictures	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 foaming	punct
26	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 display	advcl
27	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 foaming	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spreading	punct
29	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 foaming	conj
30	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 spreading	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 masses	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 masses	cc
33	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appeared	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 snow	case
35	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 masses	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 masses	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 masses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the Alps	masses of snow	Kjoge	like the wings of earth	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fold	participle		earth not said here		together property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	unfold	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	display	would	Alps = alp	the variegated pictures of dark woods			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
5	foam	gerund	Alps = alp not said here	waters			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme
6	spread	gerund	Alps = alp not said here	clouds			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=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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