Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 4
The Alpine roses grew near the snow, which lay in detached stripes, and looked like linen laid out to bleach.
Who acts: Alpine roses, snow · What happens: grow, lie in, detach, look, lay out, bleach · To what, where: snow, detached stripes
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 (Alpine roses, snow), 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 roses | det |
| 2 | Alpine | alpine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 roses | amod |
| 3 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 snow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snow | det |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 snow | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 detached | advmod |
| 12 | detached | detach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stripes | amod |
| 13 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 linen | case |
| 18 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 laid | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bleach | mark |
| 22 | bleach | bleach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 laid | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Alpine roses | the snow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near snow=Location | ||||
| 2 | lie in | past | the snow | detached stripes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stripe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | detach | participle | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | look | past | the Alpine roses not said here | like linen | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lay out | participle | the Alpine roses not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bleach | to-infinitive | the Alpine roses not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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