Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 11
The fir-tree forests on the mountains were covered with a purple hue like the heather bloom; and where the woods terminated, and the rocks became prominent, they looked almost transparent in the rich crimson glow of the evening sky.
Who acts: woods, rocks, evening sky · What happens: cover, terminate, become, look, glow · To what, where: tree forests
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods, rocks, evening sky), 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 | 5 forests | det |
| 2 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 fir | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forests | compound |
| 5 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 forests | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 covered | aux:pass |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hue | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hue | det |
| 13 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hue | amod |
| 14 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 covered | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 bloom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bloom | det |
| 17 | heather | heather | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bloom | amod |
| 18 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hue | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 terminated | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 terminated | cc |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 terminated | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woods | det |
| 23 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 terminated | nsubj |
| 24 | terminated | terminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 covered | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 became | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 became | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rocks | det |
| 28 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 became | nsubj |
| 29 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 terminated | conj |
| 30 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 became | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 looked | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 looked | nsubj |
| 33 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 terminated | conj |
| 34 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 35 transparent | advmod |
| 35 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 looked | xcomp |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 glow | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 glow | det |
| 38 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 glow | amod |
| 39 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 glow | amod |
| 40 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 looked | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 sky | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 sky | det |
| 43 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sky | compound |
| 44 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 glow | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the tree forests on the mountains | with a purple hue like the heather bloom | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with hue=Theme | ||||
| 2 | terminate | past | the woods | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | become | past | the rocks | prominent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | past | rocks = rock | in the rich crimson glow of the evening sky; transparent property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | glow | the evening sky | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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