Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 63

The materials of which it was built seemed just as soft, and pictured forth cloudy turrets and sail-like terraces, quite transparent, and floating in the thin air.

Who acts: materials · What happens: build, seem, picture, float · To what, where: material, cloudy turrets, thin air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (materials), 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 materials	det
2	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seemed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 built	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 built	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux:pass
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 materials	acl:relcl
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 soft	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 soft	case
11	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seemed	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pictured	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pictured	cc
14	pictured	picture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 seemed	parataxis
15	forth	forth	ADV	_	17 turrets	advmod
16	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 turrets	amod
17	turrets	turret	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pictured	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 terraces	cc
19	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 like	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 sail	punct
21	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 terraces	amod
22	terraces	terrace	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 turrets	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 transparent	punct
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 transparent	advmod
25	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pictured	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 floating	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 floating	cc
28	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 seemed	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 air	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
31	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 air	amod
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 floating	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		material		of the materials	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	seem	past	the materials			soft property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	picture	participle		cloudy turrets and like terraces			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	float	gerund	the materials not said here		the thin air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory

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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