Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 64
The sea--the great, the glorious sea, that dashed its long waves against the coast--was stretched out before him.
Who acts: sea, height · What happens: dash, stretch out, wave · To what, where: long waves
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 (sea, height), 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 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dashed | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 great | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sea | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sea | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 8 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sea | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dashed | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dashed | nsubj |
| 12 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 waves | nmod:poss |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 waves | amod |
| 15 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dashed | obj |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 coast | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coast | det |
| 18 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dashed | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 stretched | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stretched | aux:pass |
| 21 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 dashed | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 stretched | compound:prt |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stretched | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | the sea and the glorious sea | height's long waves | against the coast | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wave=Instrument against coast=Patient | |||
| 2 | stretch out | past · passive | the sea and the glorious sea not said here | before tone | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 3 | wave | height | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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