Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 39
Brilliant fish, with scales like silver and gold, swam after the boat, sometimes making a spring and splashing the water round them, while birds, red and blue, small and great, flew after him in two long lines.
Who acts: Brilliant fish · What happens: swim, make, splash, fly · To what, where: water, two long lines
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brilliant fish), 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 | Brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fish | amod |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 scales | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 scales | case |
| 5 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fish | conj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 silver | case |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scales | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gold | cc |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 silver | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swam | punct |
| 11 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 boat | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boat | det |
| 14 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swam | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 16 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 making | advmod |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 swam | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spring | det |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 splashing | cc |
| 21 | splashing | splash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 making | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 splashing | obj |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 splashing | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 birds | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 birds | case |
| 28 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 swam | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 red | punct |
| 30 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 birds | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 blue | cc |
| 32 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 red | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 small | punct |
| 34 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 red | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 great | cc |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 red | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 flew | punct |
| 38 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swam | conj |
| 39 | after | after | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 flew | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 lines | case |
| 42 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 lines | nummod |
| 43 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 lines | amod |
| 44 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 flew | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | Brilliant fish and scales like silver and gold | after the boat | while birds | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | Brilliant fish and scales like silver and gold not said here | spring | sometimes property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 3 | splash | gerund | Brilliant fish and scales like silver and gold not said here | the water | round fish | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme | |||
| 4 | fly | past | Brilliant fish and scales like silver and gold not said here | two long lines | after Oie | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=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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