Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 28

For his monument, he had the floating, ever-changing icebergs, whereon the seal sleeps, while the storm bird flies round their gleaming summits!"

Who acts: man, seal, storm bird · What happens: have, change, sleep, fly · To what, where: floating, icebergs, gleaming summits

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, seal, storm bird), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 monument	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 monument	nmod:poss
3	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 monument	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floating	det
8	floating	floating	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 changing	punct
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 changing	advmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 changing	punct
12	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 had	advcl
13	icebergs	iceberg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 changing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sleeps	punct
15	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	18 sleeps	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 seal	det
17	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sleeps	nsubj
18	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 changing	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flies	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 flies	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bird	det
22	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bird	compound
23	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flies	nsubj
24	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sleeps	conj
25	round	round	ADP	_	28 summits	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 summits	nmod:poss
27	gleaming	gleaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 summits	compound
28	summits	summit	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flies	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 flies	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 sleeps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	the floating			for man's monument	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floating=Patient
2	change	gerund	man not said here	icebergs		ever		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iceberg=Patient
3	sleep	present	the seal				whereon property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fly	present	the storm bird		bird's gleaming summits			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round summit=Trajectory

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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