Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 4
The gray walls, and the heavy clumsy-looking towers of the gloomy castle of Chillon, were reflected in the clear flood.
What happens: look, reflect · To what, where: gray walls, clear flood
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4671): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 walls | det |
| 2 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 walls | amod |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 towers | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 towers | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 towers | det |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 towers | amod |
| 8 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 towers | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 clumsy | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 towers | amod |
| 11 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walls | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 14 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 castle | amod |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 towers | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Chillon | case |
| 17 | Chillon | Chillon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 castle | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 walls | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 reflected | aux:pass |
| 20 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 flood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flood | det |
| 23 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 flood | amod |
| 24 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reflected | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | reflect | past · passive | the gray walls and the heavy clumsy looking towers of the gloomy castle of Chillon | the clear flood | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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