Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 7
Then the summits of the dark, sacred mountains were covered with snow, and the highest, mount Parnassus, glowed longest in the red evening light.
Who acts: highest · What happens: cover, mount, glow · To what, where: summits, Parnassus, longest, red evening light
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 (highest), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 covered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 summits | det |
| 3 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mountains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mountains | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dark | punct |
| 8 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mountains | amod |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 summits | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 covered | aux:pass |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 snow | case |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mount | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mount | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 highest | det |
| 17 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 mount | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 highest | punct |
| 19 | mount | mount | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 covered | parataxis |
| 20 | Parnassus | Parnassus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mount | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 glowed | punct |
| 22 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mount | conj |
| 23 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 glowed | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 light | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 light | det |
| 26 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 light | amod |
| 27 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 light | compound |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 glowed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the summits of the dark sacred mountains | then | with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme | |||
| 2 | mount | infinitive | the highest | Parnassus | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parnassus=Patient | ||||
| 3 | glow | past | the highest not said here | longest | the red evening light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent long=Theme |
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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