Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 40
As the sun rose higher, Eliza saw before her, floating on the air, a range of mountains, with shining masses of ice on their summits.
Who acts: sun, Eliza · What happens: rise, see, float, shine · To what, where: air, masses, summits
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 (sun, Eliza), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 rose | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | advcl |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 rose | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
| 7 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 floating | punct |
| 12 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floating | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 range | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 range | det |
| 18 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 air | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mountains | case |
| 20 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 range | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shining | punct |
| 22 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 23 shining | mark |
| 23 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 floating | conj |
| 24 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shining | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ice | case |
| 26 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 masses | nmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 summits | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 summits | nmod:poss |
| 29 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shining | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Eliza | before air | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | float | gerund | Eliza not said here | the air and a range of mountains | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | Eliza not said here | masses of ice | swans's summits | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mass=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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