Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 39

Then before the eyes of little Tuk appeared a confusion of colors, red and green; but it cleared off, and he could distinguish a cliff close to the bay, the slopes of which were quite overgrown with verdure, and on its summit stood a fine old church with pointed towers.

Who acts: eyes, confusion, Tuk · What happens: appear, clear off, distinguish, overgrow, stand, confuse · To what, where: confusion, cliff, fine old church, summit, colors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, confusion, Tuk), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 appeared	advmod
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 eyes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eyes	det
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 appeared	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Tuk	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Tuk	amod
7	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eyes	nmod
8	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 confusion	det
10	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 appeared	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 colors	case
12	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 confusion	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 red	punct
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 colors	appos
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 green	cc
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 red	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 cleared	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 cleared	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cleared	nsubj
20	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 appeared	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 cleared	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 distinguish	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 distinguish	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 distinguish	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 distinguish	aux
26	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 appeared	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cliff	det
28	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 distinguish	obj
29	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 distinguish	xcomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 bay	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bay	det
32	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 close	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 slopes	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 slopes	det
35	slopes	slope	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 distinguish	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 overgrown	obl
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 overgrown	aux:pass
39	quite	quite	ADV	_	40 overgrown	advmod
40	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 slopes	acl:relcl
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 verdure	case
42	verdure	verdure	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 overgrown	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 stood	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 stood	cc
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 summit	case
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 summit	nmod:poss
47	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 stood	obl
48	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 appeared	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 church	det
50	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 church	amod
51	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 church	amod
52	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 stood	obj
53	with	with	ADP	_	55 towers	case
54	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 towers	amod
55	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 stood	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the eyes of little Tuk	a confusion of colors		then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location confusion=Theme
2	clear off	past	confusion					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
3	distinguish	could	Tuk	a cliff			the slopes obl; close property	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute cliff=Theme
4	overgrow	past · passive					of the slopes; with verdure	tree rules
5	stand	past	the eyes of little Tuk not said here	a fine old church	confusion's summit		with pointed towers	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent church=Theme on summit=Destination
6	confuse			colors				nom confusion «state transitive»: of=patient

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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