Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening, sentence 4
With outspread wings he sank slowly, as a soap bubble sinks in the still air, till he touched the water.
Who acts: caravan, soap bubble · What happens: sink, touch · To what, where: air, water
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 (caravan, soap bubble), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 wings | case |
| 2 | outspread | outspread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wings | amod |
| 3 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sank | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sank | nsubj |
| 5 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 sank | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sinks | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 sinks | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bubble | det |
| 10 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bubble | compound |
| 11 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sinks | nsubj |
| 12 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sank | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 air | advmod |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sinks | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 touched | punct |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 touched | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 touched | nsubj |
| 20 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sinks | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 touched | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | caravan | with outspread wings; slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wing=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | sink | present | a soap bubble | the air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | caravan | the water | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-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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