Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 68
It was a terrible storm, great waves arose, darkly heaving and tossing the vessel to and fro.
Who acts: home, great waves · What happens: be, arise, toss, fro · To what, where: terrible storm, darkly heaving, vessel
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, great waves), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 storm | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 storm | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 storm | amod |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 arose | punct |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waves | amod |
| 8 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 arose | nsubj |
| 9 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 storm | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heaving | punct |
| 11 | darkly | darkly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heaving | amod |
| 12 | heaving | heaving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arose | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tossing | cc |
| 14 | tossing | toss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 heaving | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 vessel | det |
| 16 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tossing | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 arose | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fro | cc |
| 19 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 arose | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 storm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | home | a terrible storm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | great waves | darkly heaving | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heaving=Theme | ||||
| 3 | toss | gerund | great waves not said here | the vessel | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fro | infinitive | great waves not said here | 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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