Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 17
The pine-forests looked like little groups of moss on high rocks, whose summits were lost in clouds of mist.
Who acts: pine forests · What happens: look, lose, cloud · To what, where: summits, clouds, mist
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pine forests), 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 | 4 forests | det |
| 2 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forests | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 pine | punct |
| 4 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 groups | case |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 groups | amod |
| 8 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 moss | case |
| 10 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 groups | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rocks | case |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rocks | amod |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 summits | nmod:poss |
| 16 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux:pass |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 clouds | case |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lost | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mist | case |
| 22 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clouds | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the pine forests | like little groups of moss; on high rocks | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on rock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | summits | clouds of mist | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cloud | mist | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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