Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 8

He ascended still higher, to a spot where a few rough blades of grass grew between the blocks of stone and the chamois passed quietly on over the snow-fields.

Who acts: gentian, few rough blades, chamois · What happens: ascend, grow, pass · To what, where: spot, blocks, snow fields

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 (gentian, few rough blades, chamois), 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	2 ascended	nsubj
2	ascended	ascend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 higher	advmod
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 ascended	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spot	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 spot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spot	det
8	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ascended	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 grew	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 blades	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blades	amod
12	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blades	amod
13	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grew	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 grass	case
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blades	nmod
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spot	acl:relcl
17	between	between	ADP	_	19 blocks	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 blocks	det
19	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grew	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 stone	case
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blocks	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 passed	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 chamois	det
24	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 passed	nsubj
25	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stone	conj
26	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	27 on	advmod
27	on	on	ADV	_	25 passed	advmod
28	over	over	ADP	_	32 fields	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fields	det
30	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fields	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 snow	punct
32	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 passed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ascended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	ascend	past	gentian	a spot	high property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location
2	grow	past	a few rough blades of grass	the blocks of stone		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between block=Location
3	pass	past	the chamois	the snow fields		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over field=Location

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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