Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 15

But the children of the sun sang in louder strains in praise of the mind of man, which can span the sea as with a yoke, can level mountains, and fill up valleys.

Who acts: children, man · What happens: sing, span, level, fill up, praise, mind · To what, where: louder strains, sea, mountains, valleys, mind, man

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 (children, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 sang	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sang	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 strains	case
9	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 strains	amod
10	strains	strain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sang	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 praise	case
12	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strains	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 mind	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mind	det
15	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 praise	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 man	case
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mind	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 span	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 span	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 span	aux
21	span	span	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 man	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 span	obj
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 yoke	case
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 yoke	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 yoke	det
27	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 span	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 level	punct
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 level	aux
30	level	level	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 sang	parataxis
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 level	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fill	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fill	cc
34	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 level	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 fill	compound:prt
36	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fill	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the children of the sun		louder strains in praise of the mind of man		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in strain=Location
2	span	can	man	the sea		as a yoke	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme
3	level	can		mountains			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient
4	fill up	infinitive		valleys			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent valley=Patient
5	praise			the mind of man			nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	mind			man			nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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