Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 39

The glaciers seemed to spread above them like a continued chain of masses of ice, piled up in wild confusion between bare and rugged rocks.

Who acts: glaciers · What happens: seem, spread, continue, pile up · To what, where: masses, wild confusion

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 (glaciers), 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 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spread	mark
5	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	above	above	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spread	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 chain	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chain	det
10	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 chain	amod
11	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 masses	case
13	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chain	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 ice	case
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 masses	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 piled	punct
17	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 masses	acl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 piled	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 confusion	case
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 confusion	amod
21	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piled	obl
22	between	between	ADP	_	26 rocks	case
23	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rocks	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rugged	cc
25	rugged	rugged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bare	conj
26	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 confusion	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the glaciers				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	spread	to-infinitive	the glaciers not said here			above glaciers = glacier; like a continued chain of masses of ice	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Location
3	continue	participle					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pile up	participle		masses of ice not said here	wild confusion between bare rocks		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in confusion=Destination

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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