Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 7

When seen from the heights, the trunks of these trees looked like slender stems; but on a nearer inspection they were found to be large and strong enough for the masts of a ship.

Who acts: trunks · What happens: see, look, find, be · To what, where: heights, trunks, nearer inspection

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trunks), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	2 seen	mark
2	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 found	advcl
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 heights	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heights	det
5	heights	height	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seen	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trunks	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trunks	det
8	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looked	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trunks	nmod
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heights	acl:relcl
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 stems	case
14	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stems	amod
15	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looked	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 inspection	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 inspection	det
20	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 inspection	amod
21	inspection	inspection	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	aux:pass
24	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	to	to	PART	_	27 large	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 large	cop
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 found	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 strong	cc
29	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 large	conj
30	enough	enough	ADV	_	27 large	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 masts	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 masts	det
33	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 large	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 ship	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 ship	det
36	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 masts	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	participle			the heights		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	look	past	the trunks of this trees	the heights not said here		like slender stems	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme height=Attribute
3	find	past · passive		trunks = trunk	a nearer inspection		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	is	to-infinitive	trunks = trunk not said here			for the masts of a ship; enough, large property	tree rules
5	be		trunks = trunk not said here				tree rules

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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