Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 7

She has never heard the rolling of wheels or the hoof-tread of horses in her streets, through which the fish swim, while the black gondola glides spectrally over the green water.

Who acts: Moon, fish, black gondola, wheels, horses · What happens: not hear, swim, glide, roll, tread · To what, where: rolling, streets, green water

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 (Moon, fish, black gondola, wheels), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rolling	det
6	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wheels	case
8	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rolling	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 tread	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tread	det
11	hoof	hoof	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tread	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 hoof	punct
13	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolling	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 horses	case
15	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tread	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 streets	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 streets	nmod:poss
18	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 swim	punct
20	through	through	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 swim	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fish	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 swim	nsubj
24	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 glides	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 glides	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gondola	det
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 gondola	amod
29	gondola	gondola	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 glides	nsubj
30	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 swim	parataxis
31	spectrally	spectrally	ADV	_	30 glides	advmod
32	over	over	ADP	_	35 water	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
34	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 water	amod
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 glides	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hear	present · perfect	Moon	the rolling of wheels or the hoof tread of horses	Moon's streets		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rolling=Stimulus
2	swim	present	the fish				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Trajectory
3	glide	present	the black gondola		the green water	spectrally property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory
4	roll		wheels				nom rolling «event intransitive»: of=agent
5	tread		horses				nom tread «act intransitive»: of=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: «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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