Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 3

The water, which a few moments before had been as clear and smooth as a mirror, became very troubled.

Who acts: water · What happens: be, become

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clear	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 clear	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moments	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moments	amod
7	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 clear	nsubj
8	before	before	ADV	_	7 moments	advmod
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 clear	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 clear	cop
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 clear	case
12	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 smooth	cc
14	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clear	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 mirror	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mirror	det
17	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smooth	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 water	punct
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 troubled	advmod
21	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the water	clear property	tree rules
2	be		the water not said here	as a mirror	tree rules
3	become	past	the water	troubled property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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