Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 97
He could see the edges of the glaciers, looking like green glass against the soiled snow, and the deep chasms beneath the loftiest glacier.
Who acts: house · What happens: see, look, soil · To what, where: edges, deep chasms
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 (house), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 edges | det |
| 5 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 glaciers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 glaciers | det |
| 8 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 edges | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 see | advcl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 glass | case |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 glass | amod |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 snow | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 snow | det |
| 16 | soiled | soil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 snow | amod |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glass | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 chasms | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 chasms | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chasms | det |
| 21 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chasms | amod |
| 22 | chasms | chasm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looking | obl |
| 23 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 26 glacier | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 glacier | det |
| 25 | loftiest | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 glacier | amod |
| 26 | glacier | glacier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chasms | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | house | the edges of the glaciers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer edge=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | house not said here | the deep chasms beneath the loftiest glacier | like green glass against the soiled snow | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | soil | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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