Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 26
The perpendicular rocks were covered with slippery ice, and where in summer the stream from the rocks had left a watery veil, icicles large and heavy hung from the trees, while the snow-powdered fir-trees were decorated with fantastic garlands of crystal.
What happens: cover, leave, hang, powder, decorate · To what, where: perpendicular rocks, stream, watery veil, trees, powdered fir trees
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rocks | det |
| 2 | perpendicular | perpendicular | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rocks | compound |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux:pass |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ice | case |
| 7 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ice | amod |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 left | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 summer | case |
| 13 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stream | det |
| 15 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 rocks | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rocks | det |
| 18 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stream | nmod |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | aux |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 covered | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 veil | det |
| 22 | watery | watery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 veil | amod |
| 23 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 icicles | punct |
| 25 | icicles | icicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 veil | conj |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 veil | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 heavy | cc |
| 28 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 large | conj |
| 29 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 veil | acl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 trees | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 trees | det |
| 32 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hung | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 decorated | punct |
| 34 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 43 decorated | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 trees | det |
| 36 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 powdered | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 snow | punct |
| 38 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 trees | amod |
| 39 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 trees | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 fir | punct |
| 41 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 decorated | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 decorated | aux:pass |
| 43 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 covered | conj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 garlands | case |
| 45 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 garlands | amod |
| 46 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 decorated | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 crystal | case |
| 48 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 garlands | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the perpendicular rocks | with slippery ice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the stream from the rocks | summer | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme veil=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | hang | participle | a watery veil and icicles not said here | the trees | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | powder | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | decorate | past · passive | the powdered fir trees | with fantastic garlands of crystal | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with garland=Theme |
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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