Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 35
The earth was black where the mountain torrents or the melted ice had poured upon it, but the bluish green, glassy ice sparkled and glittered.
Who acts: earth · What happens: be, melt, pour, sparkle, glitter · To what, where: mountain torrents, bluish green glassy ice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), 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 earth | det |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 black | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 black | cop |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 poured | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 torrents | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 torrents | compound |
| 8 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 ice | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ice | det |
| 11 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ice | amod |
| 12 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 torrents | conj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 poured | aux |
| 14 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 black | advcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 poured | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ice | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 ice | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ice | det |
| 20 | bluish | bluish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ice | amod |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ice | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 green | punct |
| 23 | glassy | glassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ice | amod |
| 24 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 black | conj |
| 25 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 ice | acl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 glittered | cc |
| 27 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 sparkled | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the earth | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | melt | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | pour | past · perfect · passive | the mountain torrents or the melted ice | upon earth | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sparkle | participle | the bluish green glassy ice not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | glitter | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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