Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening, sentence 2

The fishes swam to and fro above their tops.

Who acts: fishes · What happens: swim, fro · To what, where: tops

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fishes	det
2	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 swam	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fro	cc
6	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swam	conj
7	above	above	ADP	_	9 tops	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tops	nmod:poss
9	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fro	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the fishes						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	infinitive	the fishes not said here			fishes's tops			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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