Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 33

Many boats, the crews all furnished with torches, glided over the silent expanse--but these fires had not been kindled for catching fish, for everything had a festive look.

Who acts: Many boats, everything · What happens: furnish, glide, not kindle, catch, have · To what, where: torches, silent expanse, fires, fish, festive look

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many boats, everything), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boats	amod
2	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 furnished	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crews	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crews	det
5	crews	crew	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 boats	conj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 furnished	advmod
7	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 torches	case
9	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 furnished	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 glided	punct
11	glided	glide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 torches	acl
12	over	over	ADP	_	15 expanse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 expanse	det
14	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 expanse	amod
15	expanse	expanse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glided	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 kindled	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 kindled	cc
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 fires	det
19	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 kindled	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kindled	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 kindled	advmod
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 kindled	aux:pass
23	kindled	kindle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 furnished	conj
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 catching	mark
25	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 kindled	advcl
26	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 catching	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 had	case
29	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 furnished	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 look	det
32	festive	festive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 look	amod
33	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 furnished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	furnish	participle	Many boats and the crews			with torches; all property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with torch=Theme
2	glide	participle		torches not said here	the silent expanse		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over expanse=Trajectory
3	not kindle	past · perfect · passive		this fires			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	catch	gerund		fish			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
5	have	past	everything	a festive look			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

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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