Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 45
The glaciers stand here so close together it might almost be said they are hand-in-hand; and each is a crystal palace for the Ice Maiden, whose power and will it is to seize and imprison the unwary traveller.
Who acts: glaciers, each, wind · What happens: stand, say, be, imprison · To what, where: wind, hand hand, crystal palace, unwary traveller · Speech: someone speaks here
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, each, wind), 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 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stand | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 6 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 together | advmod |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | aux |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | aux:pass |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stand | advcl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hand | cop |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hand | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 hand | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 in | punct |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 palace | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 palace | cc |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 palace | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 palace | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 25 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 palace | amod |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | parataxis |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 Maiden | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Maiden | det |
| 29 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Maiden | compound |
| 30 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 palace | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 power | punct |
| 32 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 33 power | nmod:poss |
| 33 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 palace | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 seize | cc |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 seize | aux |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 seize | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 seize | cop |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 seize | mark |
| 39 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stand | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 imprison | cc |
| 41 | imprison | imprison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 seize | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 traveller | det |
| 43 | unwary | unwary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 traveller | amod |
| 44 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 imprison | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the glaciers | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | might · passive | wind | almost, together property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | glaciers = glacier | hand hand | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | each | a crystal palace and a crystal palace and a crystal palace's power's power | for the Ice Maiden | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | future | wind | seize property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | imprison | infinitive | wind not said here | the unwary traveller | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=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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