Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 169
The Jungfrau stood out in brightness and splendor, as a back-ground to the green woods of the surrounding hills.
Who acts: Jungfrau · What happens: stand out · To what, where: brightness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jungfrau), 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 Jungfrau | det |
| 2 | Jungfrau | Jungfrau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 brightness | case |
| 6 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 splendor | cc |
| 8 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brightness | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ground | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ground | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 back | punct |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 woods | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woods | det |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woods | amod |
| 18 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ground | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hills | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hills | det |
| 21 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hills | compound |
| 22 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 woods | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand out | past | the Jungfrau | brightness and splendor | as a back ground to the green woods of the surrounding hills | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in brightness=Location |
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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