Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 68
Like enormous blue-black blocks of rock, the clouds lay piled over one another.
What happens: pile · To what, where: clouds
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: 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 6 blocks | case |
| 2 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blocks | amod |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 black | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 blue | punct |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blocks | amod |
| 6 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 piled | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blocks | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blocks | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clouds | det |
| 11 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 piled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 piled | aux:pass |
| 13 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 piled | obl |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | fixed |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 piled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile | past · passive | the clouds | like enormous black blocks of rock; over one | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over one=Destination |
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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