Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 88
One snow-capped peak after another rose before him, till the whole of the glittering Alpine range became visible.
Who acts: One capped peak · What happens: cap, glitter, become
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 (One capped peak), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 peak | nummod |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 capped | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 snow | punct |
| 4 | capped | cap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 peak | amod |
| 5 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 became | nsubj |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 rose | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 rose | det |
| 8 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 peak | nmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rose | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whole | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 whole | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 whole | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 peak | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 range | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 range | det |
| 17 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 range | amod |
| 18 | Alpine | alpine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 range | amod |
| 19 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whole | obl |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cap | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | become | past | One capped peak after another rose before valley | visible property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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