Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 66
Then the clouds arose and covered the region round about where the gleaming mist announced "Here lies Paris."
Who acts: clouds, gleaming mist · What happens: arise, cover, gleam, announce, lie · To what, where: region, Paris · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (clouds, gleaming mist), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clouds | det |
| 3 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 covered | cc |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 region | det |
| 8 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covered | obj |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 covered | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 15 announced | mark |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 announced | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mist | det |
| 13 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 mist | amod |
| 14 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 announced | nsubj |
| 15 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 covered | advcl |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lies | punct |
| 17 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 lies | advmod |
| 18 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 announced | ccomp |
| 19 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lies | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the clouds | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | the clouds not said here | the region | round property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme region=Destination | |||
| 3 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | announce speech: other | past | the gleaming mist | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | lie in a quote | present | Paris | here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paris=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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