Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 4

The house was situated in a narrow gorge, whose rocky walls rose to a perpendicular height, naked and black, while round their summits clouds often hung, looking like white living figures.

Who acts: rocky walls · What happens: situate, rise, hang, look · To what, where: house, narrow gorge, perpendicular height, summits clouds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocky walls), 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 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 situated	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 situated	aux:pass
4	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 gorge	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gorge	det
7	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gorge	amod
8	gorge	gorge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 situated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rose	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 walls	nmod:poss
11	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 walls	amod
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rose	nsubj
13	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 situated	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 height	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 height	det
16	perpendicular	perpendicular	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 height	compound
17	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rose	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 naked	punct
19	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 height	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 black	cc
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 naked	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hung	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 hung	mark
24	round	round	ADP	_	27 clouds	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 summits	nmod:poss
26	summits	summit	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 clouds	compound
27	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hung	obl
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 hung	advmod
29	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rose	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looking	punct
31	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 hung	advcl
32	like	like	ADP	_	35 figures	case
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 figures	amod
34	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 figures	compound
35	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 looking	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 situated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	situate	past · passive		the house	a narrow gorge		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in gorge=Destination
2	rise	past	rocky walls		a perpendicular height		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to height=Initial_Location
3	hang	past	rocky walls not said here		summits clouds	often property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round cloud=Destination
4	look	gerund	rocky walls not said here			like white living figures	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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