Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 10
Then there ascended from the valley a thick vapor, which waved itself in the air like a fluttering veil.
Who acts: thick vapor · What happens: ascend, wave, flutter · To what, where: thick vapor, valley, vapor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thick vapor), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ascended | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ascended | expl |
| 3 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 valley | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 valley | det |
| 6 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ascended | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 vapor | det |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vapor | amod |
| 9 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ascended | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waved | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 waved | nsubj |
| 12 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 vapor | acl:relcl |
| 13 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 waved | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waved | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 veil | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 veil | det |
| 19 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 veil | amod |
| 20 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waved | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ascended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascend | participle | a thick vapor | the valley; there | then | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vapor=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | wave | past | a thick vapor | vapor | like a fluttering veil; in the air | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Patient in air=Theme | |||
| 3 | flutter | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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