Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 51
Was he rising higher, or sinking lower and lower into the deep, deadly abyss?
Who acts: Maiden · What happens: rise, sink · To what, where: deep deadly abyss
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), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rising | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rising | nsubj |
| 3 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 rising | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sinking | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 sinking | cc |
| 7 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rising | conj |
| 8 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 sinking | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lower | cc |
| 10 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 lower | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 abyss | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 abyss | det |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 abyss | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 deep | punct |
| 15 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 abyss | amod |
| 16 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sinking | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 rising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · progressive | Maiden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sink | gerund | Maiden not said here | the deep deadly abyss | low property | 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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