Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 45
The gray pyramids looked like broken shadows in the clear air and the far-off desert, where the ostrich wheels his rapid flight, and the lion, with his subtle eyes, gazes at the marble sphinx which lies half buried in sand.
Who acts: gray pyramids, ostrich wheels, marble sphinx · What happens: look, break, flight, lie, bury · To what, where: sand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gray pyramids, ostrich wheels, marble sphinx), 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 | 3 pyramids | det |
| 2 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pyramids | amod |
| 3 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 shadows | case |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shadows | amod |
| 7 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 air | amod |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 desert | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 desert | det |
| 14 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 desert | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 desert | punct |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 desert | case |
| 17 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 air | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 flight | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 flight | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wheels | det |
| 21 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wheels | compound |
| 22 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 flight | nsubj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 flight | nmod:poss |
| 24 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 flight | amod |
| 25 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 desert | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lion | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lion | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lion | det |
| 29 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 eyes | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 eyes | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | subtle | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 eyes | amod |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lion | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gazes | punct |
| 36 | gazes | gaze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lion | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 sphinx | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sphinx | det |
| 39 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sphinx | compound |
| 40 | sphinx | sphinx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gazes | nmod |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 lies | nsubj |
| 42 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 sphinx | acl:relcl |
| 43 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 44 buried | advmod |
| 44 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 lies | advcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 sand | case |
| 46 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 buried | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the gray pyramids | like broken shadows; in the clear air and the far desert and palm's rapid flight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | flight | the ostrich wheels | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lie | present | the marble sphinx | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bury | participle | the marble sphinx not said here | sand | half property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sand=Destination |
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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