Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 43

The landscape was always changing, but ever above them towered the lofty snow-clad mountains, whose names not only Rudy but every other child knew--"The Jungfrau," "The Monk and the Eiger."

Who acts: landscape, men, other child, lofty clad mountains · What happens: change, tower, know, name · To what, where: lofty clad mountains, Jungfrau

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 (landscape, men, other child, lofty clad mountains), 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 landscape	det
2	landscape	landscape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changing	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 changing	advmod
5	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 towered	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 towered	cc
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 towered	advmod
9	above	above	ADP	_	11 towered	mark
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 towered	nsubj
11	towered	tower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changing	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountains	det
13	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mountains	amod
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clad	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 snow	punct
16	clad	clad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mountains	amod
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 towered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 names	punct
19	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	20 names	nmod:poss
20	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 mountains	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 Rudy	advmod
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 Rudy	advmod
23	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 names	nmod
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 knew	cc
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 child	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 child	amod
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changing	conj
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 Jungfrau	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Jungfrau	punct
31	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Jungfrau	det
32	Jungfrau	Jungfrau	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 knew	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Jungfrau	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Jungfrau	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Monk	punct
36	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Monk	det
37	Monk	Monk	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 knew	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Eiger	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Eiger	det
40	Eiger	Eiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Monk	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 changing	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 changing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	past · progressive	the landscape			always property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tower	past	men = man	the lofty clad mountains and the lofty clad mountains and the lofty clad mountains's names Rudy's names Rudy	ever		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme
3	know	past	every other child	the Jungfrau		the Monk and the Eiger obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer jungfrau=Stimulus
4	name		the lofty clad mountains and the lofty clad mountains and names Rudy's names Rudy				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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