Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 11

It rose, as a plume of feathers, from a steam engine, to which, on the lately-opened railway, a string of carriages was linked, carriage to carriage, looking like a winding serpent.

Who acts: vapor · What happens: rise, open, link, look · To what, where: steam engine, opened railway

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 (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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 plume	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 plume	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plume	det
6	plume	plume	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 feathers	case
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plume	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 engine	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 engine	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 engine	det
12	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 engine	compound
13	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 linked	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 linked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 railway	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	23 railway	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 railway	det
20	lately	lately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 opened	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 lately	punct
22	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 railway	amod
23	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 linked	nsubj:pass
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 string	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 string	det
26	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 railway	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 carriages	case
28	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 string	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 linked	aux:pass
30	linked	link	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 engine	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 carriage	punct
32	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 engine	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 carriage	case
34	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carriage	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 looking	punct
36	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rose	advcl
37	like	like	ADP	_	40 serpent	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 serpent	det
39	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 serpent	compound
40	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 looking	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	vapor		a steam engine and carriage to carriage	as a plume of feathers	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from engine=Initial_Location
2	open	participle					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	link	past · passive		the opened railway		to a steam engine and carriage to carriage	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to which=Co-Patient
4	look	gerund	vapor not said here			like a winding serpent	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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