Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 18
They had bound themselves fast to each other, so that they looked like one large body on the slippery plains of ice encircling the deep abyss.
Who acts: fields, ice · What happens: bind, look, encircle · To what, where: fields, deep abyss
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 (fields, ice), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bound | aux |
| 3 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 bound | obj |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 bound | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 bound | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 looked | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bound | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 body | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 body | nummod |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 body | amod |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 plains | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plains | det |
| 20 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plains | amod |
| 21 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looked | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ice | case |
| 23 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plains | nmod |
| 24 | encircling | encircle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 ice | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 abyss | det |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 abyss | amod |
| 27 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 encircling | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past · perfect · passive | fields = field | to each; fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | fields = field | like one large body; on the slippery plains of ice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on plain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | encircle | gerund | ice not said here | the deep abyss | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme abyss=Co-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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