Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening, sentence 6

And a gentle wind arose, and crisped the quiet surface, which gleamed like the clouds that poured along in great broad waves; and the swan raised his head, and the glowing water splashed like blue fire over his breast and back.

Who acts: gentle wind, quiet surface, clouds, swan, glowing water · What happens: arise, crisp, gleam, pour, raise, glow · To what, where: quiet surface, great broad waves, head, breast

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 (gentle wind, quiet surface, clouds, swan), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 arose	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wind	det
3	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wind	amod
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arose	nsubj
5	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crisped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crisped	cc
8	crisped	crisp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arose	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 surface	det
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 surface	amod
11	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crisped	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gleamed	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 gleamed	nsubj
14	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 surface	acl:relcl
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 clouds	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 clouds	det
17	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gleamed	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 poured	nsubj
19	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 clouds	acl:relcl
20	along	along	ADV	_	19 poured	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 waves	case
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 waves	amod
23	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 waves	amod
24	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 poured	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 raised	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 raised	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 swan	det
28	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 raised	nsubj
29	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arose	parataxis
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 raised	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 splashed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 splashed	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
35	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 water	amod
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 splashed	nsubj
37	splashed	splash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 raised	conj
38	like	like	ADP	_	40 fire	case
39	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fire	amod
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 splashed	obl
41	over	over	ADP	_	43 breast	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 breast	nmod:poss
43	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 splashed	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 back	cc
45	back	back	ADV	_	43 breast	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arise	past	a gentle wind				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crisp	past	a gentle wind not said here	the quiet surface			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent surface=Patient
3	gleam	past	the quiet surface			like the clouds	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pour	past	the clouds		great broad waves	along property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	raise	past	the swan	wind's head			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
6	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	splash	participle	the glowing water		head's breast	like blue fire	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over breast=Location

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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