Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 51
He had walked to Staubbach--a little town that seems to flutter in the air like a silver veil--the glittering, snow-clad mountain Jungfrau.
Who acts: Rudy, little town · What happens: walk, seem, flutter · To what, where: Staubbach, air
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 (Rudy, little town), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | aux |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Staubbach | case |
| 5 | Staubbach | Staubbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 town | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 town | amod |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Staubbach | appos |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seems | nsubj |
| 11 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 town | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 flutter | mark |
| 13 | flutter | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seems | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flutter | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 veil | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 veil | det |
| 19 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 veil | amod |
| 20 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flutter | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 glittering | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 glittering | det |
| 23 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 veil | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mountain | punct |
| 25 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mountain | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 snow | punct |
| 27 | clad | clad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mountain | amod |
| 28 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 veil | conj |
| 29 | Jungfrau | Jungfrau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 mountain | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | Rudy | Staubbach | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to staubbach=Result | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | a little town | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | flutter | to-infinitive | a little town not said here | the air | like a silver veil and the glittering and snow clad mountain | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=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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