Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 3

He was so high up that the large trees beneath him, with their thick foliage, appeared like garden plants, and the pines and bushes even less.

Who acts: Maiden, thick foliage · What happens: be, appear

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden, thick foliage), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 high	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	9 trees	case
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 up	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 high	obl
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 trees	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 foliage	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 foliage	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 foliage	nmod:poss
15	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 foliage	amod
16	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 high	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 appeared	punct
18	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 foliage	acl:relcl
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 plants	case
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 plants	compound
21	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 appeared	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pines	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pines	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pines	det
25	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 high	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bushes	cc
27	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pines	conj
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 less	advmod
29	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 pines	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Maiden					up the large trees beneath Rudy; the pines and bushes obl; high property	tree rules
2	appear	past	trees's thick foliage not said here					like garden plants	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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