Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 40

They only came to see our mountain, to ascend Parnassus amid the snow and clouds, and to look at the strange black rocks which raised their steep sides near our hut.

Who acts: Franks, strange black rocks · What happens: come, see, ascend, look, raise · To what, where: mountain, Parnassus amid, steep sides, hut

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 (Franks, strange black rocks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mountain	nmod:poss
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ascend	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ascend	mark
10	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	conj
11	Parnassus	Parnassus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 amid	compound
12	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ascend	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 snow	det
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ascend	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 clouds	cc
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 snow	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 look	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 look	mark
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	25 rocks	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rocks	det
23	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rocks	amod
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rocks	amod
25	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 look	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 raised	nsubj
27	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rocks	acl:relcl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 sides	nmod:poss
29	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sides	amod
30	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 raised	obj
31	near	near	ADP	_	33 hut	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hut	nmod:poss
33	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 raised	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Franks = frank				tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Franks = frank not said here	our mountain			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus
3	ascend	to-infinitive	Franks = frank not said here	Parnassus amid			tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive	Franks = frank not said here			at the strange black rocks	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at rock=Theme
5	raise	past	the strange black rocks	Franks's steep sides	our hut		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme near hut=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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