Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 5
The moon had not yet risen high enough to penetrate the thick foggy air, and all the objects around him were confused together in the darkness.
What happens: not rise, penetrate, confuse · To what, where: moon, thick foggy air, objects, darkness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 risen | advmod |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 risen | advmod |
| 6 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 risen | xcomp |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 penetrate | mark |
| 10 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 high | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 12 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 air | amod |
| 13 | foggy | foggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 air | amod |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 penetrate | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 confused | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 confused | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 objects | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 objects | det |
| 19 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 confused | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 objects | nmod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 confused | aux:pass |
| 23 | confused | confuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 risen | advcl |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 confused | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 darkness | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 darkness | det |
| 27 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 confused | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rise | past · perfect · passive | the moon | yet | high property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | penetrate | to-infinitive | the thick foggy air | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | |||||
| 3 | confuse | past · passive | all objects around Counsellor | the darkness | together property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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