Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 87
The valley sunk as he ascended, the circle of the horizon expanded.
Who acts: valley · What happens: sink, ascend, expand · To what, where: valley
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 (valley), 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 valley | det |
| 2 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expanded | nsubj |
| 3 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 valley | acl |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 ascended | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ascended | nsubj |
| 6 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sunk | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 circle | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 circle | det |
| 9 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 valley | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 horizon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horizon | det |
| 12 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 circle | nmod |
| 13 | expanded | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 expanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | participle | the valley not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ascend | past | valley | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | expand | past | the valley | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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