Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 36

They had to go round little pools, like lakes, enclosed between large masses of ice; and, while thus wandering out of their path, they came near an immense stone, which lay balanced on the edge of an icy peak.

Who acts: torrents · What happens: have, go round, enclose, wonder, come, balance · To what, where: little pools, path, immense stone, edge

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 (torrents), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pools	amod
7	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lakes	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 lakes	case
10	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pools	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 enclosed	punct
12	enclosed	enclose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pools	acl
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 masses	case
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 masses	amod
15	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 enclosed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 ice	case
17	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 masses	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 wandering	mark
22	thus	thus	ADV	_	23 wandering	advmod
23	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 came	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 path	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 path	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 path	nmod:poss
27	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wandering	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wandering	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
31	near	near	ADP	_	34 stone	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stone	det
33	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stone	amod
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 balanced	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 balanced	nsubj:pass
37	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 balanced	aux:pass
38	balanced	balance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 stone	acl:relcl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 edge	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 edge	det
41	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 balanced	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 peak	case
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 peak	det
44	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 peak	amod
45	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 edge	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	torrents = torrent				tree rules
2	go round	to-infinitive	torrents = torrent not said here	little pools and lakes		round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	enclose	participle		little pools and lakes not said here		between large masses of ice	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	wonder speech: ask	gerund	torrents = torrent not said here		torrents's path	thus property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	come	past	torrents = torrent		a immense stone		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near stone=Location
6	balance	past · passive		a immense stone	the edge of a icy peak		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on edge=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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