Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 3
The broken clouds hung in fantastic forms upon the wood-covered hills by the rapid Rhone.
What happens: break, hang, cover · To what, where: broken clouds, fantastic forms
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 clouds | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clouds | amod |
| 3 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clouds | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forms | case |
| 6 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 forms | amod |
| 7 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hung | obl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 hills | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hills | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covered | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wood | punct |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hills | amod |
| 13 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hung | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Rhone | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Rhone | det |
| 16 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Rhone | amod |
| 17 | Rhone | rhone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clouds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | hang | participle | the broken clouds not said here | fantastic forms | upon the covered hills; by the rapid Rhone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in form=Location | |||
| 3 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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