Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 56
The mountains had disappeared, for over the land hung damp, icy mists.
What happens: disappear, hang · To what, where: mountains, icy mists, land
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 mountains | det |
| 2 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 disappeared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappeared | aux |
| 4 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hung | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 hung | mark |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hung | obl |
| 10 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappeared | advcl |
| 11 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hung | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mists | punct |
| 13 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mists | amod |
| 14 | mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hung | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past · perfect · passive | the mountains | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hang | past | icy mists | the land | damp property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over land=Location |
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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