Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 61

She saw in the dark night the gleaming cloud on the horizon; in the clear moonlight nights she missed the sailing clouds, which showed her pictures of the city and pictures from history.

Who acts: direction, sailing clouds · What happens: see, gleam, miss, show · To what, where: gleaming cloud, horizon, sailing clouds, pictures

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (direction, sailing clouds), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 night	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cloud	det
8	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cloud	amod
9	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 horizon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horizon	det
12	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloud	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 missed	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 nights	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nights	det
16	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nights	amod
17	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nights	compound
18	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 missed	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 missed	nsubj
20	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 clouds	det
22	sailing	sailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clouds	compound
23	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 missed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 showed	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 showed	nsubj
26	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 clouds	acl:relcl
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pictures	nmod:poss
28	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 showed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 city	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 city	det
31	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pictures	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pictures	cc
33	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 city	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 history	case
35	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pictures	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	past	direction	the gleaming cloud	the horizon	night	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus
2	gleam	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	miss	past	direction	the sailing clouds		night	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus
4	show	past	the sailing clouds	direction's pictures of the city and pictures from history			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent picture=Recipient

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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