Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 22

The balcony window stood open, and from it could be seen the beautiful wide extended lake, the water so clear and still, that the mountains of Savoy, with their villages, woods, and snow-crowned peaks, were clearly reflected in it.

Who acts: balcony window · What happens: stand, see, crown, reflect · To what, where: window, mountains

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (balcony window), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 window	det
2	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 window	compound
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stood	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seen	cc
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj:pass
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 seen	aux:pass
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stood	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lake	det
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lake	amod
15	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lake	amod
16	extended	extended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lake	amod
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 water	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lake	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 clear	advmod
22	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seen	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 still	cc
24	still	still	ADV	_	22 clear	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 reflected	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 reflected	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mountains	det
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 reflected	nsubj:pass
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Savoy	case
30	Savoy	Savoy	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 mountains	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 villages	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 villages	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 villages	nmod:poss
34	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mountains	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 woods	punct
36	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 villages	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 peaks	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 peaks	cc
39	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 crowned	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 snow	punct
41	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 peaks	amod
42	peaks	peak	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mountains	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mountains	punct
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 reflected	aux:pass
45	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	46 reflected	advmod
46	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seen	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 reflected	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the balcony window			open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	could · passive		window			tree rules
3	crown	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	reflect	past · passive		the mountains of Savoy and mountains's villages and woods and crowned peaks	window	clearly property	tree rules

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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