Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 92
In the Champ de Mars, however, these were to be seen more splendid, more wonderful than in the East, for human art had converted the airy deceptive scenes into reality.
What happens: see, convert · To what, where: these, airy deceptive scenes, reality
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Mars | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mars | det |
| 3 | Champ | Champ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mars | compound |
| 4 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Champ | flat |
| 5 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wonderful | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mars | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 seen | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 seen | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Mars | acl:relcl |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 splendid | advmod |
| 15 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seen | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mars | punct |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 wonderful | advmod |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 East | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 East | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 East | det |
| 22 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wonderful | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 converted | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 art | case |
| 25 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 art | amod |
| 26 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 converted | obl |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 converted | aux |
| 28 | converted | convert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 wonderful | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 scenes | det |
| 30 | airy | airy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 scenes | amod |
| 31 | deceptive | deceptive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 scenes | amod |
| 32 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 converted | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 reality | case |
| 34 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 scenes | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | these | however, splendid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | convert | past · perfect | the airy deceptive scenes | into reality result; for human art | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent scene=Patient into reality=Result |
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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