Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 2

Whenever the jetty fountains splash into the marble basins, they seem to me to be telling the story of the floating city.

Who acts: jetty fountains, fountains · What happens: splash, seem, tell, float · To what, where: marble basins, me, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jetty fountains, fountains), 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	Whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	5 splash	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fountains	det
3	jetty	jetty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fountains	compound
4	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 splash	nsubj
5	splash	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 seem	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 basins	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 basins	det
8	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 basins	amod
9	basins	basin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 splash	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 splash	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seem	nsubj
12	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 seem	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 telling	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 telling	aux
17	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 seem	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 telling	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 city	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 city	det
22	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 city	amod
23	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 story	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	splash	present	the jetty fountains			the marble basins	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into basin=Destination
2	seem	present	fountains = fountain		me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive · progressive	fountains = fountain not said here	the story of the floating city			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
4	float	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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