Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 3

From thence she throws her far-seeing glance into the deep valley beneath, where human beings are busily moving about like ants on a stone in the sun. "Spirits of strength, as the children of the sun call you," cried the Ice Maiden, "ye are but worms!

Who acts: Geneva, human beings, children, Ice Maiden, ye · What happens: throw, see, move about, call, cry, be · To what, where: far seeing glance, deep valley, stone, you, worms · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Geneva, human beings, children, Ice Maiden), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 thence	case
2	thence	thence	ADV	_	4 throws	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throws	nsubj
4	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 glance	nmod:poss
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 glance	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 far	punct
8	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 glance	amod
9	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throws	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 valley	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 valley	det
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 valley	amod
13	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throws	obl
14	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	4 throws	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 moving	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 moving	advmod
17	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beings	amod
18	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 moving	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 moving	aux
20	busily	busily	ADV	_	21 moving	advmod
21	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 throws	conj
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 moving	advmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 ants	case
24	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 moving	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 stone	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stone	det
27	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 moving	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 sun.	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun.	det
30	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 moving	obl
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Spirits	punct
32	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sun.	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 strength	case
34	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Spirits	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 call	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 call	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 children	det
38	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 call	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 sun	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sun	det
41	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 children	nmod
42	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 moving	parataxis
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 call	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 cried	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 cried	punct
46	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 throws	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Maiden	det
48	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Maiden	compound
49	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 cried	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 worms	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 worms	punct
52	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	55 worms	nsubj
53	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 worms	cop
54	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 worms	cc
55	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 cried	obl
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 throws	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	present	Geneva	Geneva's far seeing glance			into the deep valley result; beneath, thence property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer glance=Theme into valley=Result
2	see	gerund						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	move about	present · progressive	human beings			a stone	like ants; in the sun. and Spirits of strength; about, busily property	tree rules
4	call in a quote	present	the children of the sun		you			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	cry speech: express	past	the Ice Maiden					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	ye	worms				tree rules
7	glance		Geneva					nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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