Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 55
And there were large calm lakes there too, in which white swans were swimming, and beat the air with their wings.
Who acts: large calm lakes, white swans · What happens: be, swim, beat · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large calm lakes, white swans), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 were | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beat | advcl |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lakes | amod |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lakes | amod |
| 6 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 were | advmod |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 were | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swimming | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 swimming | obl |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 swans | amod |
| 13 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 swimming | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 swimming | aux |
| 15 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 were | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beat | cc |
| 18 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beat | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 wings | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wings | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beat | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | large calm lakes | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swim | past · progressive | white swans | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | beat | past | the air | with swans's wings | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with wing=Instrument |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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