Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 43
The overhanging clouds absorb all heaviness from the air, and the winds convey them away over the pine-tree summits.
Who acts: overhanging clouds, winds · What happens: overhang, absorb, convey away · To what, where: heaviness, air, clouds, tree summits
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (overhanging clouds, winds), 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 | 3 clouds | det |
| 2 | overhanging | overhang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 clouds | amod |
| 3 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 absorb | nsubj |
| 4 | absorb | absorb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 heaviness | det |
| 6 | heaviness | heaviness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 absorb | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 absorb | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 convey | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 convey | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 winds | det |
| 13 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 convey | nsubj |
| 14 | convey | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 absorb | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 convey | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 convey | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 summits | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 summits | det |
| 19 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tree | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 pine | punct |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 summits | compound |
| 22 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 convey | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 absorb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhang | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | absorb | present | the overhanging clouds | all heaviness | the air | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Goal heaviness=Theme from air=Source | |||
| 3 | convey away | present | the winds | clouds = cloud | the tree summits | away property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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