Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 29

The steam that rose formed itself into such horrible shapes that no one could look at them without fear.

Who acts: such horrible shapes · What happens: form, look · To what, where: steam, such horrible shapes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such horrible shapes), 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	2 steam	det
2	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 formed	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 formed	nsubj:pass
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 formed	aux:pass
5	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 formed	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 shapes	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shapes	amod
9	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shapes	amod
10	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 formed	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 look	nsubj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 look	aux
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shapes	acl:relcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 look	obl
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 fear	case
19	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	past · passive		the steam		such horrible shapes			tree rules
2	look	could	such horrible shapes					at snakes = snake; without fear	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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