Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 31
The dark-blue water, from the glaciers of the mountains, was icy cold and very deep.
Who acts: blue water · What happens: be
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 (blue water), 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 water | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blue | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 dark | punct |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cold | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glaciers | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 glaciers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 glaciers | det |
| 9 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 water | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glaciers | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cold | cop |
| 15 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cold | amod |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 deep | cc |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 deep | advmod |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cold | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the blue water and the glaciers of the mountains | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the blue water and the glaciers of the mountains not said here | tree rules |
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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