Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 39

They looked up, and saw above them, on the over-hanging rock, the snow-covering heave and lift itself as a piece of linen stretched on the ground to dry raises itself when the wind creeps under it.

Who acts: danger, wind · What happens: look up, see, cover, lift, stretch, dry · To what, where: over-hanging rock, heave, linen, ground

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
7	above	above	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rock	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 rock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rock	det
12	over-hanging	over-hanging	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rock	amod
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heave	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heave	det
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 covering	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 snow	punct
18	covering	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 heave	amod
19	heave	heave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rock	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lift	cc
21	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 lift	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 piece	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 piece	det
25	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 raises	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 linen	case
27	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 piece	nmod
28	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 linen	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 ground	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stretched	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 dry	mark
33	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 stretched	advcl
34	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lift	parataxis
35	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 raises	obj
36	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 creeps	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wind	det
38	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 creeps	nsubj
39	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 raises	advcl
40	under	under	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 creeps	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look up	past	danger				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past			the over-hanging rock and the covering heave	above danger	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	cover	gerund					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	lift	present		heave			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
5	stretch	participle		linen not said here	the ground		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	dry	to-infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	raise	present		heave		as a piece of linen	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
8	creep	present	the wind		heave		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=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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