Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 68
Up through the clouds came the green summits of the forest trees, and beneath him, the oak saw them rising, and growing higher and higher.
Who acts: oak, clouds · What happens: come, see, rise, grow · To what, where: green summits, clouds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oak, clouds), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 clouds | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clouds | det |
| 4 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 summits | det |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 summits | amod |
| 8 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trees | compound |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 summits | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 15 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 him | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 oak | det |
| 19 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 saw | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 growing | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 growing | cc |
| 25 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 rising | conj |
| 26 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 growing | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 higher | cc |
| 28 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 higher | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the green summits of the forest trees | the clouds | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location summit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the oak | clouds = cloud | beneath summit | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rise | gerund | clouds = cloud not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | gerund | clouds = cloud not said here | high property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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