Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 36
Young hunters, and young maidens--men and women who had sunk in the deep chasms of the glaciers--stood before him here in lifelike forms, with eyes open and smiles on their lips; and far beneath them could be heard the chiming of the church bells of buried villages, where the villagers knelt beneath the vaulted arches of churches in which ice-blocks formed the organ pipes, and the mountain stream the music.
Who acts: young maidens, Young hunters, villagers, ice blocks, mountain · What happens: sink, stand, smile, hear, chime, bury · To what, where: deep chasms, lifelike forms, lips, hunters, organ pipes, music
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 (young maidens, Young hunters, villagers, ice blocks), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hunters | amod |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 maidens | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 maidens | cc |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maidens | amod |
| 6 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunters | conj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 men | punct |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 maidens | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 women | cc |
| 10 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 maidens | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sunk | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sunk | aux |
| 13 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 maidens | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 chasms | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chasms | det |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chasms | amod |
| 17 | chasms | chasm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sunk | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 glaciers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 glaciers | det |
| 20 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 chasms | nmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunters | punct |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stood | obl |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 stood | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 forms | case |
| 27 | lifelike | lifelike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forms | amod |
| 28 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stood | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 open | punct |
| 30 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 32 open | mark |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 open | nsubj |
| 32 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stood | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 smiles | cc |
| 34 | smiles | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 open | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 lips | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 lips | nmod:poss |
| 37 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 smiles | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 heard | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 heard | cc |
| 40 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 heard | advmod |
| 41 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 45 heard | mark |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 heard | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 heard | aux |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 heard | aux:pass |
| 45 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 stood | parataxis |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 chiming | det |
| 47 | chiming | chime | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 heard | advcl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 bells | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 bells | det |
| 50 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 bells | compound |
| 51 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 chiming | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 villages | case |
| 53 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 villages | amod |
| 54 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 bells | nmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 knelt | punct |
| 56 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 59 knelt | advmod |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 villagers | det |
| 58 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 knelt | nsubj |
| 59 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 villages | acl:relcl |
| 60 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 63 arches | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 arches | det |
| 62 | vaulted | vault | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 63 arches | amod |
| 63 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 71 formed | obl |
| 64 | of | of | ADP | _ | 65 churches | case |
| 65 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 71 formed | obl |
| 66 | in | in | ADP | _ | 67 which | case |
| 67 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 70 blocks | det |
| 68 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 blocks | compound |
| 69 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 68 ice | punct |
| 70 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 71 formed | nsubj |
| 71 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 knelt | advcl |
| 72 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 74 pipes | det |
| 73 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 pipes | compound |
| 74 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 71 formed | obj |
| 75 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 79 stream | punct |
| 76 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 79 stream | cc |
| 77 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 78 mountain | det |
| 78 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 stream | nsubj |
| 79 | stream | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 heard | conj |
| 80 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 81 music | det |
| 81 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 stream | obj |
| 82 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past · perfect | young maidens and men and women | the deep chasms of the glaciers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Young hunters and young maidens and men and women | lifelike forms; here | before Rudy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | |||
| 3 | smile | present | Young hunters and young maidens and men and women not said here | eyes's lips | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hear | could · passive | hunters = hunter | far property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | chime | gerund | of the church bells of buried villages | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | bury | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | kneel | past | the villagers | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | vault | participle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | form | past | which ice blocks | the organ pipes | beneath the vaulted arches; of churches | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pipe=Theme | |||
| 10 | stream | infinitive | the mountain | the music | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=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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