Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 21

Altogether it formed a more beautiful picture than she had ever seen; but as the sun rose higher, and the clouds were left behind, the shadowy picture vanished away.

Who acts: shadow, Eliza, sun, shadowy picture · What happens: form, see, rise, leave behind, vanish away · To what, where: beautiful picture, clouds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (shadow, Eliza, sun, shadowy picture), 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	Altogether	altogether	ADV	_	3 formed	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 formed	nsubj
3	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 picture	det
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 beautiful	advmod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 picture	amod
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 formed	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 seen	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 seen	advmod
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 formed	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 rose	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 rose	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 rose	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rose	nsubj
18	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 formed	conj
19	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 rose	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 left	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 left	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 clouds	det
23	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 left	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 left	aux:pass
25	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 rose	conj
26	behind	behind	ADV	_	25 left	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 vanished	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 picture	det
29	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 picture	amod
30	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 vanished	nsubj
31	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 left	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 vanished	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	form	past	shadow	a beautiful picture		altogether property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location picture=Theme
2	see	past · perfect	Eliza		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	rise	past	the sun			high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	leave behind	past · passive		the clouds		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	vanish away	past	the shadowy picture			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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