Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 4
On the surface of the ocean a mist often rests, and that is her widow's veil.
Who acts: mist, that · What happens: rest, be · To what, where: surface, veil
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 (mist, that), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 surface | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 surface | det |
| 3 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rests | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ocean | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ocean | det |
| 6 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surface | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mist | det |
| 8 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rests | nsubj |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 rests | advmod |
| 10 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 veil | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 veil | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 veil | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 veil | cop |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 widow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 veil | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 widow | case |
| 18 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rests | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rests | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present | a mist | the surface of the ocean | often property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | mist's widow's veil | tree rules |
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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