Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 75

Then, when the sun set, how beautifully, deeply blue, would be the tint on the mountains, one rising above the other in the far distance, and the summit of mount Parnassus rising above them all like a glorious crown.

Who acts: sun set, one, summit · What happens: be, rise · To what, where: tint, mountains, other

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 (sun set, one, summit), 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	17 tint	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 tint	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 set	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	compound
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tint	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 beautifully	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 beautifully	advmod
9	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	6 set	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blue	punct
11	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	12 blue	advmod
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beautifully	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tint	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 tint	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tint	det
17	tint	tint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 mountains	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mountains	det
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tint	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rising	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 rising	nsubj
23	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 tint	acl
24	above	above	ADP	_	26 other	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rising	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 distance	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 distance	det
29	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 distance	amod
30	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rising	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 summit	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 summit	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 summit	det
34	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 distance	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 mount	case
36	mount	mount	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 summit	nmod
37	Parnassus	Parnassus	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 mount	appos
38	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 summit	acl
39	above	above	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 rising	obl
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 them	nmod:unmarked
42	like	like	ADP	_	45 crown	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 crown	det
44	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 crown	amod
45	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 all	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tint	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	the sun set	the tint	the mountains	then		tree rules
2	rise	gerund	one	the tint not said here	the other		in the far distance and the summit of mount	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tint=Theme
3	rise	gerund	the summit of mount not said here				above summits = summit	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above they=Location

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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