Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 70
The glaciers appear as if a rushing stream had been frozen in its course, and pressed into blocks of green crystal, which, balanced one upon another, form a wondrous palace of crystal for the Ice Maiden--the queen of the glaciers.
Who acts: glaciers, green crystal · What happens: appear, rush, freeze, press, balance, form · To what, where: rushing stream, course, blocks, one, another, wondrous palace
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 (glaciers, green crystal), 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 glaciers | det |
| 2 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appear | nsubj |
| 3 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 frozen | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 frozen | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 7 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stream | amod |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frozen | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 frozen | aux:pass |
| 11 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appear | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 course | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 course | nmod:poss |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 frozen | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pressed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pressed | cc |
| 17 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appear | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 blocks | case |
| 19 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pressed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 crystal | case |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 crystal | amod |
| 22 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blocks | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 balanced | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 balanced | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 which | punct |
| 26 | balanced | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 crystal | acl:relcl |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 balanced | obj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 another | case |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 one | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 form | punct |
| 31 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 appear | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 palace | det |
| 33 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 palace | amod |
| 34 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 form | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 crystal | case |
| 36 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 palace | nmod |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 Maiden | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Maiden | det |
| 39 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Maiden | compound |
| 40 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 crystal | nmod |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 queen | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 queen | det |
| 43 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Maiden | appos |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 glaciers | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 glaciers | det |
| 46 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 queen | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the glaciers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | freeze | past · perfect · passive | a rushing stream | world's course | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | press | participle | the glaciers not said here | blocks of green crystal | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into block=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | balance | past | green crystal | one | another | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent one=Theme upon another=Location | |||
| 6 | form | infinitive | a wondrous palace of crystal for the Ice Maiden | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme |
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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