Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 55

Then they began to talk of those mysterious beings with which the land of the Alps abounds; the hosts of apparitions which come in the night, and carry off the sleepers through the air, to the wonderful floating town of Venice; of the wild herds-man, who drives the black sheep across the meadows.

Who acts: waters, land, apparitions, man · What happens: begin, talk, abound, come, carry off, float · To what, where: man, sleepers, air, black sheep, meadows

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 (waters, land, apparitions, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 talk	mark
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 beings	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 beings	det
8	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beings	amod
9	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 abounds	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 abounds	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Alps	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Alps	det
16	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 land	nmod
17	abounds	abound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 beings	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hosts	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hosts	det
20	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 began	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 apparitions	case
22	apparitions	apparition	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hosts	nmod
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 come	nsubj
24	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 apparitions	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 night	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 night	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 carry	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 carry	cc
30	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 carry	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sleepers	det
33	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 carry	obj
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 air	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 air	det
36	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 town	punct
38	to	to	ADP	_	42 town	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 town	det
40	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 town	amod
41	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 town	amod
42	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	parataxis
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Venice	case
44	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 town	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 man	punct
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 herds	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 herds	det
48	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 herds	amod
49	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 man	obl
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 herds	punct
51	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 drives	punct
53	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 drives	nsubj
54	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 man	acl:relcl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 sheep	det
56	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 sheep	amod
57	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 drives	obj
58	across	across	ADP	_	60 meadows	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 meadows	det
60	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 drives	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	waters = water	man		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	talk	to-infinitive	waters = water not said here				of that mysterious beings	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	abound	present	the land of the Alps				with that mysterious beings	vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with which=Theme
4	come	present	apparitions			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry off	infinitive		the sleepers	the air			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeper=Theme
6	float	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	drive	present	man	the black sheep	the meadows			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme across meadow=Trajectory

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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