Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 67

The clouds piled themselves up like a chain of mountains, hurried on through the air, and spread themselves abroad over the whole landscape, as far as the Dryad's eye could reach.

Who acts: clouds, eye · What happens: pile up, hurry on, spread, reach · To what, where: clouds, mountains, air, whole landscape

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, eye), 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 clouds	det
2	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 piled	nsubj
3	piled	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 piled	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 piled	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 chain	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chain	det
8	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piled	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 mountains	case
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chain	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hurried	punct
12	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mountains	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 hurried	compound:prt
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hurried	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spread	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spread	cc
19	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 piled	conj
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 spread	obj
21	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	19 spread	advmod
22	over	over	ADP	_	25 landscape	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 landscape	det
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 landscape	amod
25	landscape	landscape	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spread	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 far	punct
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 far	advmod
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 spread	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 reach	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Dryad	det
31	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 eye	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Dryad	case
33	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reach	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 reach	aux
35	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 far	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 piled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pile up	past	the clouds	clouds = cloud		like a chain of mountains	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme themselves=Destination
2	hurry on	participle		mountains not said here	the air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory
3	spread	past	the clouds not said here	clouds = cloud	the whole landscape	abroad, far property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme over landscape=Destination
4	reach	could	the Dryad's eye				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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